It’s actually impossible to miss Romelu Lukaku. Especially not when he’s standing right next to you. The Belgian football pro is 1.91 meters tall and has the broad shoulders of a bouncer. A closet-sized attacker.
Leandro Trossard still didn’t see him. Or he didn’t want to see him. In any case, the winger shot the ball over the goal from 20 meters instead of passing it to the center forward, who was standing completely free a few meters away from him.
And because football is a game in which very small things often have very big consequences, one could ask afterwards what direction Belgium’s first European Championship group match would have taken if Trossard had not missed one of the many chances in the 20th minute, but Lukaku had scored an early equaliser.
