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Diarra lately


Disco_Pants93 said:
Anyone slagging him off still hasn't learned their lesson when it comes to our young players. Lad has played 16 PL games, 3 goals and 2 assists (unlucky not to be more) and had a bad injury. That sort of record over a full complement of games makes him a very good PL midfielder.
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The big problem he has is those who can't see past his feet. See Craig Gordon for the same.
 
Disco_Pants93 said:
Anyone slagging him off still hasn't learned their lesson when it comes to our young players. Lad has played 16 PL games, 3 goals and 2 assists (unlucky not to be more) and had a bad injury. That sort of record over a full complement of games makes him a very good PL midfielder.
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be judged by my after a run of 20+ games next season
 
Disco_Pants93 said:
Anyone slagging him off still hasn't learned their lesson when it comes to our young players. Lad has played 16 PL games, 3 goals and 2 assists (unlucky not to be more) and had a bad injury. That sort of record over a full complement of games makes him a very good PL midfielder.
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This.

I am gutted he didn't pass it to Talbi. Yeah.. am I going to spend all week slagging him off for it.. nah

This is football.
 
There's a chance the defender clears it even if the keeper was beat, the decision was really poor. It's not really that he missed, but how he missed.
Combined with arguing with the fans after Port Vale, faking an injury deep in our own box that put his teammates in an awful position and led to a goal...

These things compound. He needs to learn, and change his attitude a bit. Then it's all good.
 
Shibby Safc said:
You're baffled when someone gets criticised for a massive mistake, and then massively praised when they make ammends later?

That is baffling mind.
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What gets me most is the same people praising Riggy now are the same people who two months ago wanted him gone because he wasn't prem 'quality'

Sometimes people need to sit back and look at the bigger picture.

Like O'Nien, if he plays minutes against Man U and Chelsea and scores the goal which takes us into Europe the same bedroom managers who have spent the last 12 hours saying he needs to be moved on because he's shit will be singing his praises. Its just a bt .. meh
 
Disco_Pants93 said:
There’s criticism of the mistake and then there’s how some of our fans react. Posts on social media for Diarra to be sold and calling him shite etc. Idiotic.
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Agreed i wouldnt sell him over that, it is totally reactionary, but its just as daft to completely brush it off and say he'll learn from it and almost sneer at criticism of the lad.

Diarra also massively fucked a similar position against bournemouth iirc. So its not always clear that he will learn - for sure there's no evidence of that until you see it happen.
 
People saying he had a crap game, I don’t think football is for them. He was all over the pitch, worked his bollocks off and set up the first goal, almost gave Isidor a second and nearly nicked it (both in the dying minutes).

But because of a poor decision against the best keeper in the world he’s absolutely shite ?

Give over
 
Shibby Safc said:
Agreed i wouldnt sell him over that, it is totally reactionary, but its just as daft to completely brush it off and say he'll learn from it and almost sneer at criticism of the lad.

Diarra also massively fucked a similar position against bournemouth iirc. So it’s not always clear that he will learn - for sure there's no evidence of that until you see it happen.
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Young footballers make mistakes. It happens. Some of our senior footballers had massively below part games yesterday but the same criticism doesn’t seem to be around .
 
Disco_Pants93 said:
Young footballers make mistakes. It happens. Some of our senior footballers had massively below part games yesterday but the same criticism doesn’t seem to be around .
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You know why, big mistakes matter more, have bigger impact, and become the talking point. Even all the pundits are calling that out today.

For clarity i thought o9 had a horrific time of it, which was probably more impactful overall. But can understand that the talking point is diarra.
 
I keep mentioning I went right in on him after Brighton, weeks of poor performances followed by a match of poor individual decisions.

However, he was decent against the Mags & excellent last week. Decent again yesterday I thought, bar an obvious wrong decision for the goal.

But I’m going to look at the positives in this. It is nice to have a midfielder who’s attacking minded & will run amongst & beyond the back line. We haven’t had that type of player for years. Hopefully he can keep his overall performances going in the right direction & add a bit of quality to the final ball/shot.
 
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