You will struggle to find much sympathy for Romelu Lukaku on Chelsea Twitter.
A lot of that is understandable given the misguided and controversial interview that riled supporters in December, plus the struggles to adapt to Thomas Tuchel's style of play since the club broke their transfer record to sign him last August.
But it is fair to suggest after netting two goals in the FIFA Club World Cup, both openers against Al-Hilal and Palmeiras, things are slightly looking up for the Belgian.
The 28-year-old still has a way to go in order to win back frustrated fans, but scoring in a major final for Chelsea cannot be dismissed.
Some of the reaction post the Club World Cup final has suggested Chelsea's attacking play was much improved once the forward was taken off by Thomas Tuchel.
Referring to the "fluid" and fast movement an attacking quartet of Christian Pulisic, Timo Werner, Hakim Ziyech and Kai Havertz were able to produce.
But sadly the eye-test and pure numbers do not support this theory. Chelsea's creativity in open play was highly underwhelming in Saturday's final.
Only two shots from 20 on the night tested Weverton.
One of those was a long-distance strike from Thiago Silva in the first half which was palmed away for a corner, although replays showed the ball was likely drifting wide.
The other was Lukaku's bullet header in the 54th minute to give Chelsea the lead.
An xG (expected goals) of 1.89 is higher than Chelsea's overall average for the season, but this is highly boosted by Kai Havertz's winning penalty. Every penalty in the xG model is worth .76 given "since all penalty kicks share the same characteristics," as explained by FBref.
After Tuchel decided to take his goalscorer and creator Callum Hudson-Odoi off in the 76th minute, Chelsea produced no more shots on target.
Cesar Azpilicueta's volley, which was blocked by the hand of Luan Garcia was likely goal-bound but that opportunity sprung from a corner.
The talks of 'fluidity' mean very little when you aren't actually creating any chances of note.
Lukaku was linking well whilst on the pitch with Pulisic, playing in a more central role. His bullet header proved the ruthless edge Chelsea paid big money for in the first place.
The issue with Chelsea's attack isn't all down to Lukaku. And to suggest so would assume everything was perfect before his £97 million arrival or that the rest of Tuchel's attack is performing anywhere close to competently.
By no means has Lukaku been perfect or were his two performances in the Club World Cup faultless.
But BREAKING NEWS: Goals do matter.
As much as some may be irked by Lukaku's off-field antics and cannot bring themselves to praise his efforts in Abu Dhabi, he was the only one to show a ruthless edge when required in open play.
If he continues scoring goals, then he remains a part of the attack.
When he isn't, it is on the rest of the attacking talent to prove they can offer more than their maligned peer.
On Saturday, they simply didn't.
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