Bafodé Diakité

And I think with every performance, every cameo I've seen, I've thought, he looks a little bit better.

And even in that guy, I thought, first off, I thought, St Malvara game not looking great and then again looked better as it went on held onto the ball a little bit better in the second half and to be fair to him he took the goal but when he got through it I thought it's a good finish and as you say he scored the penalty but to score the first one from open play for us to do him the world of good yeah the players all looked delighted for him so yeah really really pleased for him and yeah like I say all of them done really well pleased again for Diakite still ain't conceded a goal and I think I said a stat to you that I saw a brother said to me that we've only conceded one goal when Lewis Cook's been on the pitch this season but That's insane, isn't it? Great little stat.

And I'll tell you what.

Where was

They're going to have Silva and Dekat...

Diakite in the middle.

Ryan Christie and Lewis Cook, I would imagine, in the two sixes.

Ben Gannon-Dawke probably on the right-hand side.

But we're at a point where it's like these are nicer problems to have, right? And it's the first time in a while I think I've looked at a Bournemouth squad and gone, Oh, you know, we have options throughout throughout the spine, even even on centre backs and all of that.

And there'll be some interesting things to watch out for, because I think Diakite has been playing a lot in the Europa League.

uh and look fine but he's on three or three yellow cards and i think four is a ban so that might mean at some point you have to play somewhat like a hill or a silver that you wouldn't have otherwise played so you know against one of these teams where you might have wanted to rotate him um so so yeah that you know players like that have been have been being integrate reintegrated because i think diakite looked like he'd uh really fallen out of favor uh last season

Talking of yellow cards, for the record, in the Premier League at the moment, Adam Smith, Antonio Silva and Marcus Tavernier are all on three.

Yes, he's not played at all.

I don't know what's going on there.

played in Europe last week, right?

Um, he will only get better.

I think he's an actual successor, but Diakite, I really like him.

Um, he's got his confidence back.

Um, I think that's why he was dropped by Andoni Iriola, but he's got his confidence back.

which is good.

So it shows that Rosa is willing to give minutes to, you know, the likes of Diakite playing right back.

You know, the likes of Di Gregorio, who he's already told us is playing against Villa in his post-match interview.

He said he's going to be in for that.

Antonio Silva was criticised for his performance against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, but he has been given confidence to continue playing and he will have a role to play tonight, I would think.

And A bit surprising, of course, that Diakite would be at right back.

I only think that it would be for the sake of rotation because Bournemouth do have a very tasty game coming up against Manchester United this weekend at Old Trafford.

And of course, the Cherries do have a fine record.

Expected to be a 4-4-2, which could sort of evolve into a 4-2-3-1.

Di Gregorio in goal.

Diakite, Hill, Silva and Truffaut are in the back four.

Tavernier, Christie, Adams and Ganondoke are in the midfield.

And Soler went for the ball, and he kinda just like hand balled it for no reason.

And right behind him was Bafode Diakite, who would've had a free header about six yards out, and he surely would've scored unless he somehow missed.

But I wouldn't, I wouldn't doubt that.

I'll, I'll, I'll hold my judgment on Julius Soler.

[laughs]

Um, I'll, I'll have words with him.

Um, so Bafode Diakite with a yellow card got a 7.1 rating.

Yeah.

He hasn't had that much game time, but I was delighted to see him in the squad.

Antonio Silva was partnered by Diakite in the centre of defence.

I did say about Diakite, but of course Hill made way instead of Antonio Silva.

And Mr Dependable, Smudge, Adam Smith was on the right-hand side.

Left-hand side of midfield, Marcus Tavernier, Adams and Lewis Cook was in the centre.

Yeah.

I've gone for Baffo Diakite.

I, I've, I'm going rogue.

I've got a two, two-point cushion-

I'd like to think we keep a clean sheet, and I think there could be a cheeky g- I've, I've predicted 4-0.

Wow.

There could be a cheeky Baffo Diakite goal.

Oh, I'd love that.