The article only shows tackles "attempted' and not tackles "won". It also fails to mention that Lucas is the only player we have who plays in the DM role - He's our best defensive midfielder with the highest attempted tackles purely by default.
He is a good player but people are misremembering him. Even up until his injury his form was erratic - 1 good game, 2 average games, 1 poor game, 1 good game, 2 average games, 1 poor game. If people are expecting his return to catapault us up the table they will be deeply disappointed. That said, his return will be very welcome if it reduces the amount of games that spearing gets.
Purely by default?
As well, personally I don't remember him having an erratic game for us! (maybe at the very start of the season) But up until his injury, he had at least 10 good consistent performances in a row. Some exceptional.
Your not:

by any chance are you?
"His return will be very welcome if it reduces the amount of games that Spearing gets"
Is that the only reason? Oh dear.
