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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Allardyce lauds Diouf
The 22-year-old scored a hat-trick in the 3-1 Carling Cup second-round victory over Norwich City on Tuesday night.
Brought in from Manchester United earlier this month, Diouf rewarded his boss for handing him his first start after two Barclays Premier League appearances with an impressive performance.iouf, a Senegal international, headed the opener in the 29th minute, stabbed home his second 11 minutes from time and nodded in a third late on but could easily have had a couple more, having hit the bar from close range."We made hard work of it to be honest," admitted Allardyce.
"I thought we had already had many chances to get the second goal before we finally got it and it was a really good performance and a comfortable victory.
"Diouf scored three very good goals but could have scored more than that - the easiest one he missed when he headed it on to the bar.
"A hat-trick for one of our players is always very encouraging and hopefully he can carry on scoring in the Premier League.
"But he took up lovely positions; for the first goal he drifts off to the far post, gets himself unmarked and waits for the flick-on and then runs in and taps it in.
"His third one he pulls away unmarked at the far post, Morten (Gamst Pedersen) floats in a lovely ball and he couldn't really miss that one.
"He does look a natural goalscorer in that he drifts into the right positions and that is not coachable. If we put balls in those sort of areas he will get on the end of them and that is not what we have got really."
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