Lucas Digne

[pauliewalnuts]

Digne is attack minded, Moreno is even more so.

[brontebilly]

Digne has done a lot better than I for one was expecting. Especially with Ramsey out ahead of him. Cracking cross for the second goal.

[usav]

Digne has done a lot better than I for one was expecting. Especially with Ramsey out ahead of him. Cracking cross for the second goal.

Let's face it, every player has improved under Emery and his coaching staff.

[Percy McCarthy]

I remember posting in the lead up to last season’s January window, I thought Emery would buy a left-back as I reckoned he didn’t really fancy Digne. I was right, but when he needed to, he took him to Unai-versify and it’s certainly paid off this season.

[dave shelley]

For a player who was clearing out his locker in the summer for pastures new only to be told he was staying due to long term injury to others, it has to be said his attitude has been exemplary.  His form hasn't been too shabby either.

[AV84]

I agree, I think his attitude has been brilliant. I think he literally had his bags packed when Acuña got injured last minute and the deal fell through.  It's still possible he'll be off in January, but his form might add a little bit extra onto the price, and get him a better deal too.

People on here weren't impressed with his wages, he was at the time apparently our highest paid player. He's now played the second most amount of minutes in the league this season, 890, only behind Konsa on 900. 3 assists in 10 league games. A goal in another competition.

I know it's still a lot of money to be paying our 2nd choice player, assuming Moreno takes his place back eventually, and Digne might not want to stay if he goes back to being 2nd choice, but I'd be happy to have them both.

[Dick Edwards]

Digne is now the player we thought we'd bought for big money from Everton, the player who had represented his country and PSG. He's a quality player. It just needed a quality manager to get the performance levels out of him.

[Hookeysmith]

Agree with all 3 of the last posts

He also brings together the other French guys in a nice mix with the Spanish speakers and our home grown players.

You can see on the training videos that they are a really close knit unit

[Footy-Vill]

I found him incrediblely frustrating yesterday at Forest. All the time, there were opportunities he had in all the space he found himself in.He's only got the ability to cross the ball, but other than that, attackingly, he's very limited. 11 crosses and was unable to provide Just kicks it into the area time and again. It became very predictable in his play, and I did hope Moreno could come in again because he would have been more effective in attacking on the left side.

[OCD]

As I've seen said on other threads, we could have done with Moreno and Ramsey being on that left side. Forest deliberately left that flank free so that they could condense the middle. It was a good tactic with no Ramsey/Moreno but once they're back, they'll destroy teams that do that.

[Clark W Griswold]

I found him incrediblely frustrating yesterday at Forest. All the time, there were opportunities he had in all the space he found himself in.He's only got the ability to cross the ball, but other than that, attackingly, he's very limited. 11 crosses and was unable to provide Just kicks it into the area time and again. It became very predictable in his play, and I did hope Moreno could come in again because he would have been more effective in attacking on the left side.

I think i'll refer you to some of the posts above yours, which gave a good reflection of his season so far rather than a knee jerk reaction to one game. I actually thought he was one of our better players first half although he was poor second, no doubt.

I have noticed a few ridiculous comments from the usual wind up merchants on individual players after yesterday, some worse than this one. Forest did a good job on us and we weren't quite at our best level either, it happens. 2-0 flattered them as well, they didn't do much other than those 2 shots, they just defended very well.

Back to Digne, and he has done enough to keep his place really but you know Moreno is likely to be back in when fit. Whilst i'd feel sorry for Digne i would concede that Moreno is great when he's flying so hard to leave out.

[Clampy]

I don't think he has to cross the ball in first time like he tends to. I wish now and again he'd put his foot on it and have a look.

[Risso]

If you watch the highlights again, he makes lots of good passes to overlapping players.

[brontebilly]

one of our better players yesterday I thought. Guilty of a brutal shot when well placed at one point. We had a number of those in the second half...Bailey, Tielemans, Diaby. Moreno at his best has more about him in getting in behind defenses but has missed a lot of football. Going to be tough for him to be really challenging Digne until around Xmas I think.

[Risso]

Good to see Moreno warming up before the game mind. If Ramsey still has a way to go, perhaps Moreno would be an option in front of Digne in place of Zaniolo?