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2020/21 Lucas Digne

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GwladysBlue said:
He’s back to his levels last season when he was just as bad.

Don’t know if it’s because he gets hardly any support.

I’d prefer Godfrey at LB with Digne infront.
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It’s seems strange how he doesn’t seem ( well to me anyway) more attacking when he plays wing back. Plays the same in a 4.

Maybe we could have thrown Nkounkou on for the last 20mins. And had some pace down the flanks.

Dignes a class player, but is not blessed with Great speed.
 
Had a really good game yesterday I would say, was pretty spotless from a defensive standpoint and got forward as ever.

Will people stop calling for Godfrey LB and Digne LM?! He is one of the best LBs in the league, why would you play him out of position? Where do people come up with these ideas man, drives me wild.

Thing is with Everton, our best players are so reliant on eachother that we miss one or two and the entire performance level drops. Digne really needs that player ahead of him who will work back to cover him, but also drift inside to give him the space to overlap and get forward. Richy goes to CF and it doesn't exist. More recruitment needed!
 
Don't think he's in great form but he's often left completely isolated on the left when looking to attack. Opposition know he's our biggest danger at delivery from the wing, so swamp him. I never see Sigurdsson, Davies etc offering him and out to play a one two with or even use as a dummy run.

Tactic seems to be drag everyone central to leave Digne free and hope James has ability to pick him out. But managers have got on to this now and either wont let James get enough time do this or make sure Digne is always tracked.

We are so slow at moving the ball through midfield that these two are rarely in enough space to do damage.
 
Still one of the players who retains his place next season. The list for me is getting smaller and smaller. Last years summer signings can join him and throw in richie and dcl and mina I'm stuck after that.
 

SunKing said:
Don't think he's in great form but he's often left completely isolated on the left when looking to attack. Opposition know he's our biggest danger at delivery from the wing, so swamp him. I never see Sigurdsson, Davies etc offering him and out to play a one two with or even use as a dummy run.

Tactic seems to be drag everyone central to leave Digne free and hope James has ability to pick him out. But managers have got on to this now and either wont let James get enough time do this or make sure Digne is always tracked.

We are so slow at moving the ball through midfield that these two are rarely in enough space to do damage.
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That’s why signing a top right back in the summer is the most important signing. It gives James two options when playing centre. As you said we are far to easy to play against now as teams know what we do. Digne is double marked on our left side, having 2 good attacking fullbacks will stop this.
 
diggerdestroyer said:
Still one of the players who retains his place next season. The list for me is getting smaller and smaller. Last years summer signings can join him and throw in richie and dcl and mina I'm stuck after that.
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Yes, I think you're pretty much spot on. The problem we have, though, is even some of this "new core" are not exactly proving themselves indispensable either. Digne and Richarlison - who were surely two of the key players that the club intended to build around - have not stepped up this season at all (injuries being one reason). James, our one technically brilliant player, is fragile. Doucoure has done enough to persevere with, but Allan really hasn't. He's not been on the pitch enough to make himself central to what we do. Godfrey has been versatile, but needs to pin down a specialised position and stake his claim. DCL has fallen away and the doubts about his full potential are now resurfacing. Mina is probably the leader at the back, but he's also in and out. In other words, even the players we think we'd like to keep are not really proving to be reliably effective.

That said, there should be no way back for Gomes, Iwobi, Sigurdsson, and Davies. All need to be replaced. Holgate is hardly worth keeping either and time is up for Coleman. If the new core were reliable, we could be more charitable and patient with some of the younger squad members, but I'm not sure the likes of Holgate and Davies will ever amount to much in our environment. The results in 2021 will help Carlo's case for new signings as the scales will have dropped from eyes about what we really have about us.
 
MACCA75 said:
Sick of players talking about great spirit tbh and then starting games like they absolutely don’t want to be there. We haven’t started a game on the front foot since Anfield, and hadn’t before that for a while either.
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I'm not even sure we did at Anfield, we just had some head tennis break to the one player who could make a goal from it.
 
Drico said:
Yes, I think you're pretty much spot on. The problem we have, though, is even some of this "new core" are not exactly proving themselves indispensable either. Digne and Richarlison - who were surely two of the key players that the club intended to build around - have not stepped up this season at all (injuries being one reason). James, our one technically brilliant player, is fragile. Doucoure has done enough to persevere with, but Allan really hasn't. He's not been on the pitch enough to make himself central to what we do. Godfrey has been versatile, but needs to pin down a specialised position and stake his claim. DCL has fallen away and the doubts about his full potential are now resurfacing. Mina is probably the leader at the back, but he's also in and out. In other words, even the players we think we'd like to keep are not really proving to be reliably effective.

That said, there should be no way back for Gomes, Iwobi, Sigurdsson, and Davies. All need to be replaced. Holgate is hardly worth keeping either and time is up for Coleman. If the new core were reliable, we could be more charitable and patient with some of the younger squad members, but I'm not sure the likes of Holgate and Davies will ever amount to much in our environment. The results in 2021 will help Carlo's case for new signings as the scales will have dropped from eyes about what we really have about us.
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Full agree with you. Spot on.
 

Needs someone ahead of him to link up with, overlap etc.... since we’ve moved richarlison up front we’ve totally negated his talents.
 
Can we quit acting like our best players can put on a cape and heroically win matches singlehandedly every time out?

James can sometimes magic up a goal or assist out of nothing. If we concede two, that's all for naught. Digne can sometimes make a wicked pass out of nothing. That doesn't end up on the scoresheet if the guy on the other end of it boots the chance.

Anything more at the offensive end is going to involve teammates in the middle of the pitch that can make things happen, and at the moment we appear to be sadly bereft due to injuries.

Let's evaluate what Digne does have direct control over - when was he last at fault for conceding?
 

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