Belgium national team coach: "Lukaku is a classy striker and knows how to score goals"

Highlight: Belgium unexpectedly lost 0-1 to Slovakia

Speaking at a press conference after the match at Frankfurt Arena (Germany) on the evening of June 17, coach Domenico Tedesco said: "This defeat is painful. I don't want to blame the players. We will evaluate internally and not talk about it in the press.

Coach Domenico Tedesco defended his players after losing to Slovakia (Photo: UEFA).

I knew one day the Belgian team would lose, but unfortunately it happened today. We created many clear chances and of course if we had taken advantage of them, the game would have been completely different."

In the 7th minute, midfielder Jeremy Doku made a bad pass in his own half, allowing Slovakia to counter-attack and Ivan Schranz to score the only goal of the match. It took coach Domenico Tedesco 15 matches since replacing Roberto Martinez to finally concede defeat.

In this match, striker Romelu Lukaka disappointed when he missed many good chances. In addition, the striker currently playing for AS Roma twice scored against Slovakia but both were denied by VAR technology.

When asked about Lukaku's form, coach Domenico Tedesco affirmed: "Lukaku has played for the Belgian team for a long time. He knows how to score goals and I don't need to tell him about that. Romelu is a top-class player with a great personality."

Romelu Lukaku's disappointment (Photo: UEFA).

Lukaku had a goal ruled out for offside in the 55th minute and in the 86th minute, teammate Lois Openda handled the ball before passing it to Lukaku to shoot into the net. In both cases, VAR intervened and ruled in Slovakia's favour.

Regarding these two situations, coach Domenico Tedesco shared: "It's difficult to comment. If the Belgian team had won, I could have said more. But we lost and I want to be seen as an impartial coach, so I won't comment much.

I trust VAR technology. If the referees say it was a handball, then we have to accept it."

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