Palace are throwing a 16 year old into European games, and he did well. Probably ultra excited the lad and couldn’t wait to show what he could do. Looked adventurous and confident today too.
But somehow
Dibling has to mature like a fine cheese, and will magically be “ready” after an as yet indeterminate amount of time.
He was pretty decent for 2 games in a row last month, and the Forest game should have been watershed, fighting with his teammates. But when he is having a poor game, his effort levels are such that he will get ZERO slack from Evertonians.
Best I can say is that from minute one of his games, it all looks so joyless for him. Yes the pressure has ramped up for him. But plenty of teams are putting players 2 and even 3 years younger than him into PL games, and they look like they need to be calmed down rather than gee’d up.
Something very wrong either with his contentment being here, or his attitude.