the trend is pretty obvious, low scoring numbers against top teams.
Feel free to dig deeper into the numbers, they clearly tell a story of Lukaku being ineffective against too teams.
For a guy who burst onto the scene at the age of 16. That inflates the number of appearances against top teams and ignores his development over the years.
Looking just at his 2 seasons at Inter you'll see he was scoring against many of the big teams no problem. Its his years at United where he wasnt scoring often in general and is no secret that he seriously struggled there overall. Go back to his spell at Everton or even Westbrom you again find him scoring against City, Spurs, Leicester, United and others.
2019/20:
Scored home and away against Milan.
Scored 2 against Napoli away.
Scored against Roma away
Scored against Barca (home), injured in the away leg
Scored 2 and assisted against Shaktar in the Semifinal of Europa League. Scored against Getafe and Bayer Leverkusen before that.
Scored against Sevilla in the final of Europe League
2020/2021:
Scored against Italy, England & France with his national team.
Scored against Fiorentina
Scored against Milan home and away (and assisted)
Scored twice and assisted against Lazio at home
Scored against Napoli
Scored and assisted against Roma
Scored against Juventus
Scored against Fiorentina and Milan in the cup.
Like I said, misleading stats if you dont include the context that most of these appearances were when he played for West Brom and Everton, and that he really struggled at United.