Romelu Lukaku plunged into disarray by Samuel Umtiti and the Blues in the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup. - David Vincent / AP / SIPA

The second Kiss Cool effect from a semi-final elimination from the World Cup. If on the evening of the defeat against the Blues (1-0), Thibaut Courtois had expressed his only loss. A Red Devil suffered afterwards from this setback. "The pain only came a month later," said Romelu Lukaku, the Belgian striker from Inter Milan during a live broadcast on Call of Duty , in partnership with the  Bleacher Report , spotted by  L'Equipe .

The night of the defeat, Lukaku was "still in adrenaline, in my head. I thought that a small country like Belgium had reached the semi-finals of a World Cup, it was incredible. When I reviewed all of the World Cup videos, it plunged me into a dark period. ” And the striker had a bad year behind.

His rebound, he found when he left Manchester United for Milan during the summer transfer window 2019. “When I moved to Inter, I had all this energy in me which had grown in the meantime. And I was a man on a mission. "

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