2019/20 Lucas Digne

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That cynical pull back on Elliot after he'd skinned him yet again summed up how disappointing he's been this season for me. Complete admission of mediocrity.
 

Number_25 said:
If you play a 4-4-2, you need to have two midfielders that can either carry the ball or make line-breaking passes - both from deep.

Schniederlin and Sigurdsson are unable to do either.
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Exactly this.

Honestly when I saw those two would be patrolling midfield, I had a bad feeling. Of all of our midfielders, those are the two I'd LEAST like to see playing together in a 4-4-2. Well, I never want to see Schneids ever, but that was the obvious weakness of that lineup, and sure enough we got dominated in midfield against a U23 team.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
Sorry but this is just a knee jerk reaction. He is going through a poor run of form and he was terrible yesterday along with every other outfield player in a blue shirt.

But Digne is a very good left back and you don't get to play for the teams he has done, including the world champions, if he was bang average.

Digne is a much better player when he has license to get forward and I believe he has been playing under orders recently. He is also better when he has Bernard in front of him and we saw signs last year of another Baines/Pienaar like relationship being formed. For me, that partnership needs to return and allowed to flourish.

He'll come good, of that I have no doubt.
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I hope you are right.
For me Digne and Bernard are so far behind peak Baines and Pienaar that it's no point in comparing.
The few chances we actually do create most often comes from the right side with Sidibe/Walcott.
Our leftside was much more productive with Baines in the side so I don't understand why he was suddenly dropped
 
I know this is ludicrous but does anyone think the fact he has a newborn since the start of the season has affected his performance..
 

MerseysideBlue said:
I hope you are right.
For me Digne and Bernard are so far behind peak Baines and Pienaar that it's no point in comparing.
The few chances we actually do create most often comes from the right side with Sidibe/Walcott.
Our leftside was much more productive with Baines in the side so I don't understand why he was suddenly dropped
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In fairness it probably took 2 years of hard work to produce peak Baines and Pienaar. What we saw of Digne and Bernard was from a handful of matches together and I for one liked what I saw. Definitely something to work on.

Baines is now 35. We've seen over the last few seasons that he struggles with injuries and can't put a significant run of games together anymore. That's perfectly understandable. The upturn in Baines' form of late is precisely because he is used so sparingly.
 
Zeitgeist said:
Wouldn't you get disheartened when you're given the ball from your goalkeeper and get pressed and the only people you can give it to in midfield can't control the ball and on the odd chance they do aren't capable of turning around with it

I sure would
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Baffling that we continued to play it out to the fullbacks to get pressed and lose the ball for the whole game!
 
At the very least, it would seem he could give us a lift with those long throw-ins from last year. Toss it into the mixer and maybe something happens. It seems long throws have been shunned. Now the main throw-in objective is a short, quick turnover.
 
Names mentioned for confronting CA sunday were Delph and Digne

he had a great season last year, has his own song - big wow, he needs to start stepping himself up this season
 

BirkenheadBlue said:
I don't understand why Bernard has been dropped so often. Him and Digne linking up was one of the best aspects of our play last season.
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Injury had him out for weeks (Since Brighton).

Naturally came back on the bench. Was due to start at City but had to pull out due to Mina hitting him in the warm up, back to recovery on the bench.

Hasn't been dropped so to speak
 
andy4efc said:
Injury had him out for weeks (Since Brighton).

Naturally came back on the bench. Was due to start at City but had to pull out due to Mina hitting him in the warm up, back to recovery on the bench.

Hasn't been dropped so to speak
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Yeah I guess maybe when you think it through... think it's the City thing that's made it seem like he's been "back" but not playing for AGES
 

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