Daryl Dike at West Bromwich Albion

Hopefully its not true. It feels preposterous how often all the YA are injured and how few seem durable. I'll chalk some of that up to being young players but still.

 

Have people started suggesting that yoga would solve all of his muscle problems yet? If not, let me be the first. He should do yoga.

 

a twitter random says he's out warming up.

 

No Dike today.

Here's our XI to face @WatfordFC in our first home fixture of the season!

COYB! 👊

— West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) August 8, 2022

 

Yuck. Weirdly inconsistent messaging about his status leading into today. Hopefully he doesn't miss more.

 

he was rumored to be battling a thigh issue in the last friendly and apparently it's still there.

 

Daryl "Glass" Dike.

He needs to get right or he's going to derail his career.

 

should just pin this to the top of the YA forum. JFC I'm tired of these injuries.

 

He looked fine against Middlesbrough

 

probably aggravated it. the gaffer played him in the last friendly and even said he was a bit hurt so it's odd and a bit worrying that the communication seems poor. I'm sure Dike wanted to make a good impression and wasn't going to say he couldn't go in the opener but now it's cost him and the team at least one match without him.

 

Confirmed it's a thigh injury no idea on the severity.

 

12 minutes against Boro. Today not starting and not on the bench. Definitely injured. Qatar looks farther away. He's probably giving everything in training to crack the starting lineup, but instead, he cracked his thigh. *sigh*

 

Definitely injury concerns with Dike. I really feel like he, Pepi, Pefok and Wright all started this season with a real shot to make the WC... but this does not bode well for him. What did he play? Like one sub appearance before getting hurt again? Now you have to add Vasquez to the list and it is really starting to look unlikely for Dike. But you never know? Injuries happen all the time... He could get on a good run of form and take a spot at the last minute if someone else can't make it. In short... better that he is injured now than in late October... but still not good news for the big guy.

 

Things can change a lot in a month or two. We'll see what happens. More worrying is that this is a series of injuries now dating back to last year.

 

Dike's out, and Watford just scored from their own half. Rough day for West Brom.

https://streamff.com/v/e05ee0

 

They quoted Steve Bruce during the broadcast that he thought it might be serious. Who knows.

 

Same guy on Twitter who said it was a thigh injury now saying Dike could be out for 2-3 months.

 

Bruce on Sky: "Dike, unfortunately, has hurt his thigh in training yesterday. We’ll not know the extent until tomorrow, but it doesn't look good” #WBA

— Elias (@EliasBurke) August 8, 2022

SB: "If it's as serious as we think it is, then he'll be a big miss," says "we'll see what we can do" on reinforcements #WBA

— Elias (@EliasBurke) August 8, 2022

 

Those thighs just may not be cut out for the game. Unfortunately.

 

There goes his World Cup.

 

Extremely Disappointing for Dike

I love Dike, but he was never going to make the 2022 World Cup Roster

 

Yea, he might need to radically evaluate his training and body type.