Diogo Dalot Shirt number 20
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Diogo Dalot is one of the brightest young talents on United’s books and has already achieved so much in his fledgling career.
The full-back has been turning heads with his footballing ability, since the age of six, when he joined Fintas Academy in his hometown of Braga. With a host of Portugal’s biggest clubs monitoring the defender, Dalot joined Porto’s youth system in 2008 at the age of nine and blossomed into a typical modern full-back. The Portuguese is blessed with natural pace, an appetite to attack and has an excellent cross in his armoury of skills. Having been capped by Portugal at youth level from Under-15s to Under-21s, Diogo has already tasted success on the international stage - notably, at the Under-17 European Championship in 2016, when he scored two crucial goals during his five appearances and was named in the Team of the Tournament. In 2014/15, a brief loan spell at Padroense in the Portuguese Second Division, and several impressive displays for Porto’s Reserves team, paved the way for Dalot to progress into the first team. He only made his senior debut for the club in October 2017 and didn’t appear in the Portuguese Primeira Liga until February 2018, but his early form gave real signs of encouragement. Diogo went on to make 33 appearances in the 2017/18 season - including one in the knockout stages of the Champions League - and he registered four goals and eight assists. Such was the teenager’s undoubted ability, former manager Jose Mourinho acted quickly to secure the signature of his Portuguese compatriot. He was one of three new additions at Old Trafford in the summer of 2018, but joined the club with a long-term knee injury which prevented him from making his first-team debut until mid-September, during a 3-0 Champions League win against Young Boys. It was a solid start from Dalot and one he repeated a week later when he played in front of the Old Trafford faithful for the first time, in a Carabao Cup tie against Derby County. Dalot finished his first term in England with a healthy 23 appearances to his name and was selected in high-profile matches against Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played a huge part in United’s progression to the Champions League quarter-final stage. It was the defender’s bullet of a shot that was adjudged to have hit Presnel Kimpembe on the arm, and resulted in our injury-time winner against Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16. Dalot scored his first goal for United in a 6-0 FA Cup win at Tranmere Rovers in January 2020, as he made 11 appearances in his second season at the club. The Portuguese full-back joined AC Milan in Serie A for the 2020/21 season, with the deal being announced at the beginning of October. The move was a success, and he even played against his parent club in the Europa League, before helping the Rossoneri qualify for the Champions League via second spot in Serie A. After representing his country at the European Championship finals, he had a mission to make his mark at Old Trafford and scored a header in a pre-season friendly win over Everton. Since Ralf Rangnick's arrival as interim manager, he has obtained much more game-time and is benefiting from that continuity and rhythm by producing consistently high performances at right-back.
Defender
Portugal
18 Mar 1999
6 Jun 2018
United Daily | First-team training, Diogo Dalot on Erik ten Hag, plus Quinton Fortune favours the Foundation...
United Daily has Rangnick and Dalot on Brighton, plus Skinner and Moore ahead of Sunday's WSL finale...
Diogo is excited to work under incoming boss Erik ten Hag because of the way Ajax have been playing.
Diogo Dalot discusses Nemanja Matic's farewell and looks ahead to Brighton...
The United defender looks ahead after Saturday’s defeat in the capital.
Diogo says that we need to look at ourselves, and not the bad luck we suffered in the Arsenal defeat...
Box to Box | Diogo Dalot joins us at the touchscreen to analyse his defensive actions, pressing and attacking play...
Diogo Dalot reiterates the importance of high standards ahead of Saturday's Everton clash.
Our Portuguese right-back urges the Reds to keep on fighting...
United Daily | Diogo's exclusive ahead of the Toffees clash, plus Under-18s coach kids and Skinner interview...
Ahead of our return to action on Saturday, Diogo Dalot explains why Old Trafford is such a special venue…
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Success stories abound at this stage of qualification, from Murphy in 1958 to Lindelof four years ago.