Uninspired Lukaku rejects his ‘bully’ label

If an unambitious, uninspiring Manchester United performance at Anfield said little about their Premier League title credentials on Saturday, the same could be said of Romelu Lukaku’s status as the most productive striker in the English game.

The Belgian international was a ghost of his usual self in the goalless draw, though his team’s only chance of the game did fall to him as he drew a solid first-half block from Simon Mignolet.

However, for a man who had scored 16 times in 13 games for club and country this season going into the Liverpool game, these 90 minutes did little to dispel the notion that Lukaku is little more than a glorified “flat-track bully”.