2021/22 Abdoulaye Doucouré

[Terrarian]

That injury has KO'd his form out of the window, where's the guy from the start of the season that was dominating games ffs?

 

[kenada_blue]

That injury has KO'd his form out of the window, where's the guy from the start of the season that was dominating games ffs?

He's been used as a sitting midfielder when Allan hasn't been playing. That's the issue.

 

[Evri]

I don’t think Lampard style fit him, he is not confident in the traffic , he likes to break the lines and use the space , our problem is that we changing the manager too often in the pass and as result we have so many players that they don’t fit current managers , Douc is Carlo lad and he was signed with purpose , if Lampard adjust our style especially away and I am sure he will it will be beneficial for everyone, we can’t play with high press and ball possession away as without crowd behind this players are giving up a minute after we concede the first goal , nothing there to push them back when at home is different story , we have to stay behind the ball and try to surprise the opponent , quick breaks trough the quick transition, Gray, Douc , Richy , Dom , Gordon, Iwobi , all those lads are more confident when we play away behind the ball , our movement without ball is shocking so due to that sometimes our midfielders only options is to pass to ball back to defenders and Douc became expert in that

 

[Saint Domingo]

There’s always excuses for these players, it’s this system or it’s this partner in midfield or it’s this manager etc. I just see a player with a poor first touch and no passing range. More often than not he goes backwards, and he has zero conviction in anything he does.

Benitez got something of a tune out of him by basically just pointing him forward to run onto things but I don’t know what formation he’d actually be good in as he doesn’t have the conviction to tackle or shoot, and doesn’t have the technique to take the ball and pass. Another cowardly dosser.

 

[Simon Buttle]

There’s always excuses for these players, it’s this system or it’s this partner in midfield or it’s this manager etc. I just see a player with a poor first touch and no passing range. More often than not he goes backwards, and he has zero conviction in anything he does.

Benitez got something of a tune out of him by basically just pointing him forward to run onto things but I don’t know what formation he’d actually be good in as he doesn’t have the conviction to tackle or shoot, and doesn’t have the technique to take the ball and pass. Another cowardly dosser.

Have noticed in a few of the recent games he is the first player whose head seems to go down if you watch, total coward goes before anyone else.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Have noticed in a few of the recent games he is the first player whose head seems to go down if you watch, total coward goes before anyone else.

I remember the cup game v United under Ancelotti. Docuoure started like a machine, confident, taking balls on the half turn, smashing into opponents etc. then Keane had gave the ball away and ballooned one out of play in quick succession under no pressure whatsoever. Then after that Docuoure couldn’t trap a ball for the rest of the game and was useless. Like you said, as soon as one minor thing went wrong his head went and he just gave up

 

[ToffeeTim]

He has struggled really badly since he came back from injury, bar the city game.

It's not ideal for him now to be going off to play internationals, but not much we can do about it.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I think he's a player who knows he plays whenever he's fit.

That's not conducive to getting the best from anyone.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I think he's a player who knows he plays whenever he's fit.

That's not conducive to getting the best from anyone.

We're getting the best from him.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I didn't watch closely but he made his debut for Mali the other day. Subbed at halftime.

 

[Zatara]

I think he's a player who knows he plays whenever he's fit.

That's not conducive to getting the best from anyone.

Agreed. Theres limited competition from quality players throughout the squad.

 

[Bebeto]

I didn't watch closely but he made his debut for Mali the other day. Subbed at halftime.

Let's hope it's not fitness/injury related...perhaps more to do with the red card for the defender...

 

[LABlue2]

His international career going about as well as his club career. Subbed at half time in the first leg and then subbed on for 17 minutes in the second. Tunisia through 1-0 on aggregate.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I see his stint with Mali went well..

 

[Cameron Manning]

I thought Gomes was better than him today, in that his crap didn't smell quite as bad kind of way...both awful

Not having that: no player doesn’t care as good as Gomes, and give those stupid, lazy, cowardly free kicks away as often as he does!!