`Joining Inter Was a Dream Come True` - Lukaku Talks About Life at Milan

The Belgian International has explained how joining Inter Milan was a dream come true and he has given insight into how he’s getting on at Inter.

Romelu Lukaku left Manchester United to join the Nerazzurri last summer and has been one of the most impressive performers for Antonio Conte`s side as they look to clinch the Serie A title in the 2019/20 season.

The season has been suspended due to the COVID-19, with Italy being one of the most affected countries globally with over 83,000 confirmed cases of the virus and over 13,000 deaths.

Lukaku talked on the situation and how his family are keeping, telling Thierry Henry in a live Instagram video call for PUMA: "We're good. Working hard. I'm running around after my son.

"It’s just difficult, I miss the competitiveness, the training sessions, playing in front of the fans, that’s the most difficult thing. Being competitive with another team."

On his game improvement at Inter, he added: "Right now it’s a moment for me to analyse my game and see what I’ve done in the last six months and to take it forward and add something else to my game.

"That’s the plan. I want to be everything. I told you (Henry) that four years ago, that was one of the first conversations in the national team. I said I want to be a guy that has double figures in goals and assists so step-by-step it’s coming.

"Twenty-five [goals], 10 [assists] would be nice. 20 [goals], 20 [assists] is not easy... I need Lautaro or Alexis Sanchez to do me a big favor. But they’re already working well with me, we’re exchanging really well. It doesn’t matter who I play with up front.

"When you mature it’s not only about yourself anymore. Obviously scoring goals is my thing, my drug, it’s what I live for but the older you get you have to use your intelligence as well because I always say I’m a student of the game. If I want to help my team, I have to also be capable of giving assists because it cannot only be me. It has to be the guy next to you. Everybody has to feel important. If I can’t shoot myself I will always try to find the last pass.

"When we do the analysis of the game, when we shoot from positions where we don’t have to shoot from he (Conte) stops the clip and then he says ‘look, the big player finds the pass’."

READ ALSO:

Sadio Mane is Sky Sports Premier League of the Year

On his partnership with Lautaro that has seen them score a combined 28 league goals, the 26-year-old said: "It all started on the first day when I got there at Inter.

"Me speaking Spanish helped because then on the field straight away we knew left, right. I asked him 'what do you like from your partner?' I said to him 'when I get the ball I like my partner to move quickly around me and be dynamic as well because that’s the way the coach wants us to play'.

"It helps me because some games I have to play more like a target man and then he will help me more with these movements and some games we both have to be dynamic and run into the space. The way we work in training is that every day we do video analysis of the way we work so it’s rare we will make the same mistake the next day.

"He (Conte) will show it in the video before training so he expects in the session that we don’t make the same mistakes. If you have a manager who’s on you like that every day, it can only be good. I’m 26, I always think about improving and getting better so I don’t mind."

The former Chelsea star also revealed that he followed Inter when he was a child and the club`s legendary strikers like Ronaldo and Adriano were two of his favorite players growing up. Lukaku said: "It was my team in Italy when I was a kid [because of] R9, Adriano.

"So for me it’s like a dream [to join Inter]. R9 was playing there when I was like six or seven. 1998 was my first memory of football. The UEFA Cup final they played, the World Cup, and then R9 got injured, he missed two years then he came back 2002 but then he went to Madrid.

"And then it was you (Henry), Drogba, Adriano. What Ronaldo did at that time I think… man."