The 22-year-old had a solid game at right-back and Diogo’s performance is even more noteworthy when you consider he had to play the majority of the game with a nasty-looking ankle wound.
Dalot collided with Villa’s Emiliano Buendia in the United box after around 32 minutes of Monday’s 1-0 win, in an incident which seemed innocuous at first.
Indeed, Diogo initially played on before the ball was eventually cleared for a Villa corner and he then sank to the turf before calling for treatment, which resulted in a stoppage of around four minutes.
The club’s physios quickly attended to our stricken defender, applying bandages to a foot which was visibly bleeding.