Speaking to talkSPORT, former Belgium head coach Roberto Martinez said: "I've always had a special connection with Romelu Lukaku because I always wanted to see Rom scoring goals. Every player needs to have an outstanding quality.
"Romelu is a goalscorer — he can finish with his left foot, with his right, he is powerful, he can get away from defenders. The problem we've had with Romelu [at club level], is that he's always been asked to do things he cannot do.
"When you start asking a player to do things away from your outstanding quality, there will be moments where he doesn't fit in. If you look at his numbers in terms of goals, you are looking throughout the numbers in the elite group of players.
"There is so much talk about how he should be holding up the ball, linking up playing, doing more off the ball, I think this is a shame. I don't think he's ever been rated in the UK [Premier League] in the way he's rated away from it.
"You have to play to his strengths. I think it's a fair point to make that the no.9 is the player who relies more on the other ten players, and it's a good example with what we've seen from Erling Haaland this season at Manchester City.
"Haaland is clearly one of the finest goalscorers in the game. It's about style, it's about the partnership, who is going to be the last man who is giving you the ball. It's about that understanding from the other players of what your no.9 can do."
Lukaku, who is spending the 2022/23 season on loan at Inter Milan, will return to Chelsea after the Champions League final against Man City on June 10.
The Belgian striker reportedly wants to rejoin the Serie A giants on a permanent transfer but Mauricio Pochettino wants to talk with the 30-year-old first.
