Diego, is Hulk as piss poor as he looks mate?
I don't watch Russian football mate so I don't know how he's been doing there, but for Brazil, he's often the weakest link in the attacking force. During the Confederations Cup, he wasn't too bad and did an important tactical job of tracking back and protecting Daniel Alves who otherwise might have been badly exposed, but still failed to score despite the fact the team was scoring quite a lot of goals.
Now in the World Cup, he's been one of our worst players. I don't think he's that bad, but he seems to be struggling with confidence as well, mostly because, being relatively unknown here before he started playing for the national team (he left the country very early, so he doesn't have any reputation here, and a lot of people don't watch much European football so they know very little of him), the fans will turn against him (and did, especially in some friendlies) much earlier than they would turn against other players that are more respected over here.
So I do think it affects his confidence and his ability to play his natural game... he was pretty good for Porto, I can't believe that's all he has to offer.
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