Dimitrios Diamantakos failed early in the season to score even in open chances. With that, there was criticism for leaving out Spanish striker Alvaro Vasquez and Argentine striker Jorge Pereira Diaz, who performed brilliantly for Kerala Blasters FC in the 2021-2022 ISL season. Many pointed to Diamantakos as one of the main reasons for the team’s back-to-back defeats in the first part of the season.
Big criticism at the beginning
When Dimitrios Diamantakos failed to score at the start of the 2022 – 2023 season, Kerala Blasters FC fans and critics first thought of Alvaro Vazquez and Jorge Pereira Diaz. Alvaro Vasquez and Jorge Pereira Diaz were instrumental in Kerala Blasters FC reaching the 2021-2022 ISL Football Finals. That’s why people were critical of Dimitrios Diamantakos at the start of the 2022-2023 season when he struggled to find form.
Diamantakos was set as the starting trouble changed
Dimitrios Diamantakos, freed from his early starting troubles, is now scoring goals. Dimitrios Diamantakos has scored 10 goals in 19 matches so far. Assisted three goals.
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Above Vasquez and Diaz
Dimitrios Diamantakos’ performance is now above that of Alvaro Vasquez and Jorge Pereira Diaz throughout the 2021 – 2022 Indian Super League season. Alvaro Vasquez scored eight goals and provided two assists in 23 matches in the Kerala Blasters FC jersey. Jorge Pereira Diaz has eight goals and two assists in 21 matches. Interestingly, Dimitrios Diamantakos had nine goals and three assists by the 19th match.
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First in the goal chase
It is also noteworthy that Dimitrios Diamantakos shares the fourth place in the goal chase for the 2022-2023 season. East Bengal player Clayton Silva tops the list with 12 goals. Odisha FC’s Diego Mauricio who scored 12 goals and Mumbai’s Jorge Pereira Diaz who scored 11 goals are next.
Blasters’ former strikers’ performance this season
Interestingly, former Kerala Blasters FC player George Perera Diaz scored eleven goals in eighteen matches for Mumbai City FC. Jorge Pereira Diaz already has six assists in the 2022-2023 season. Meanwhile, Alvaro Vasquez, who joined FC Goa, has so far managed just one goal and three assists in 17 matches.
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