Ahead of FAI Cup semi-final with Galway United, Dubliner has emerged as force to be reckoned with for Bohs.
David Sneyd JONATHAN AFOLABI was given a very direct order before the start of this League of Ireland season.
“This is my first full season in professional football. I have never really had a full season with one club, so to get past double digits and now be coming in on 20 is better than what I thought,” he said earlier this week, ahead of today’s FAI Cup semi-final away to First Division champions Galway United.
He headed to Glasgow a month after those impressive displays and his future seemed very different then. By late June, he hadn’t added to his single goal. Doubts crept in, Afolabi made it clear to the Bohemians management that he was frustrated with himself. He is someone who analyses every element of his performance, requests clips to study, and understands his game in a way others the same age might not.Opponents who were in his ear during games and found it easy to wind him up also respected the threat that he posed.
Until his goal on 67 minutes, when the ball broke in front of him at the edge of the box and his instinctive left-foot finish powered in off the post. Those vocal opponents during games also noticed a shift in his confidence. He wasn’t as timid as before when it came to dishing out verbals.“He takes awful physical abuse in the game; we don’t understand the beatings he takes. But he keeps coming back for more and that’s credit to the lad. I think he takes more probably because he gives it back too,” Devine said during that run in July.
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