++ [ originally posted by Monkfish ] ++
His face after he missed it just showed how little confidence he has at the minute.
He didn't look shocked that he missed it (which is always a sign of no confidence - if he was confident then he would have expected to score and would perhaps have looked shocked that he didn't - that make sense?), you could just tell that he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him.
There's no doubt he'll start against Milan, but he needs some sort of confidence booster because otherwise it'll be another DP noshow.
I don't think he was annoyed at being subbed, I think he was annoyed with himself.
I agree with you in a sense that I don't think he was really annoyed at Capello, he knew he should've scored from that easy header so he was just ashamed I think.
I don't think you can make so clear judgements based on person's facial expressions after certain situations. I mean, we are all different and we all have different ways to express ourselves. Sure, some patterns of behaviour are more common than others but I don't find it very reasonable to analyze players based on how "they look" on the field. Sometimes you can draw conclusions from that but as DP isn't the kind of person who shows a lot of emotions, it really doesn't work with him.
DP has been often critized for not having passion and to some extent and in some circumstances it may be true, but too often people say DP didn't have the fighting spirit just because he didn't make an angry face or something.
I also agree with kthx when he said Capello could've substituted Zala instead of DP. Sure, maybe DP "deserved to be substituted" but it could've been more beneficial to take Zalayeta (who was apart from his goal pretty average) out and let DP search that one moment of success. In the last minutes Bologna's defense was quite vulnerable so DP could've succeeded and that would've been definately a positive thing concerning the coming Milan game.
And speaking of Milan game, I hope it'll be DP and Trez who are starting. Most likely Trez will be in the starting line-up if he doesn't pick up another injury to his never-ending list but I also think DP, despite his lack of form in the past five games or so would be a more efficient choice than partnering Zala with Trez. Zala is ok, sometimes good but I don't have good memories from having those two guys as two forwards at the same time. DP and Trez have a connection so I hope it'll be capitalized.