Starter at the start of the season then doubled by Anthony Rouault following his broken hand, Bafodé Diakité will take advantage of the absence of Pitchoun (suspended for two meetings following his red card received in Nancy) to play against Guingamp. In a sector that makes Toulouse supporters worry every weekend, it is the Bafodé of great evenings which is expected to finally bring back a little serenity in the Téféciste rearguard which is sorely lacking.
We had remained on a rather negative image of him before his return as a starter against Niort last Saturday. At the beginning of October, in front of Troyes at the Stadium (0-0), Bafodé Diakité received a red card for a sole committed 60 meters from his goal. A stupid mistake which fortunately did not cost his team a defeat against Laurent Batlles’ charges. With the suspension of Rouault, Diakité – left on the bench in Lorraine and entered 15 minutes – will regain a starting place and will probably be aligned in a defense at 5 with Gabrielsen and Amian.
For 5 years, all the promoted were in the Top 5 of the best defenses
The problem is that with Gabrielsen, the association does not take. Feverish on a stopped phase and guilty of flagrant marking errors, the two men did not help the TFC to do better than fifteenth place in the classification of Ligue 2 defenses, with sixteen goals conceded. However, since the adoption three years ago of the current formula for accession to L1 (direct rise for the first two and play-offs from third to fifth), all the promoted were in the Top 5 of the ranking of L2 defenses. …
Regularly called up with the France Espoirs team, Bafodé Diakity Nevertheless, he remains a player lacking in confidence with the purple jersey of the TFC. Critics of it sometimes seem justified, sometimes severe. AT the time of this writing, if we had to choose between Gabrielsen and Diakity, it is not the Pitchoun that we would drive on the sidelines as the Norwegian sometimes seems to be beside his pumps.
Faced with the sixteenth attack in Ligue 2 with eleven goals (nineteenth away attack with 4 goals scored), Bafodé must show that his experience in Ligue 1 is a plus to allow TFC to chain a sixth clean-sheet and regain its place in the eyes of Patrice Garande, who said this at a press conference recently: “Bafo (Diakité), I know his qualities. I’m glad he’s coming back. The most important thing for me is to preserve the mentality of the group, its energy, this solidarity that exists between them. It’s part of the difficulties a coach has to manage such a workforce. We don’t want players to have one mentality when playing and another when they’re not playing.“
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