DIOGO DALOT has been left haunted by his vampire Halloween costume choice.
The Manchester United star was the butt of the joke after one fan's savage one-liner.
Dalot swapped his recently suspect performances for a scary look.
The Portugal defender and fiancee Claudia Pinto dressed as Count Dracula and his wife, to celebrate their daughter's first Halloween.
Their child Clara, who turns one years old later this month, was dressed in a cute pumpkin outfit as the Prem star shared his holiday festivities to his 3.4m Instagram followers.
But some quick-witted fans jumped at the chance to compare Dalot's vampire outfit to his defensive struggles this season.
One hilarious X user wrote: "No wonder he's afraid of crosses."
While another said: "From sucking blood to sucking at football all in a day's work."
In folklore and fiction, vampires are often depicted as being afraid of crosses, crucifixes, and other holy Christian symbols.
After winning United's Players' Player of the Year in May, Dalot has been cursed with misfortune, as he's faced heavily criticism this term.
Fans were left "disgusted" when he failed to do the basics and track Brennan Johnson's run for Tottenham's opener in their 3-0 win at Old Trafford in September.
He then failed to track goalscorer Ethan Pinnock's clever run from a Brentford corner just before half-time of United's win 2-1 a fortnight ago.
Dalot was even guilty of failing to deal with crosses during United's 5-2 thrashing of Leicester in the Carabao Cup Round of 16.
Luke Thomas' in-swinging free-kick bounced off Dalot into the path of Conor Coady, who was free to fire home from two yards to make it 4-2 just before the break.
And it's not just the defensive work that Dalot's been struggling with.
The full-back left fans in disbelief when he failed to score an OPEN GOAL in United's 2-1 defeat to West Ham.
His miss of the season contender contributed to United's overall lack of fortune in front of goal at the London Stadium, which proved to be the final nail in Erik ten Hag's coffin.
The Dutchman was sacked first thing Monday morning, with Dalot later "thanking" him on Instagram.
But the full-back will hope for an upturn in fortunes under new boss Ruben Amorim.
Former Portugual international Amorim will take charge on November 11 after seeing out a brief notice period with Sporting Lisbon.
Dalot told Sky Sports: "I am very exciting to start working with him.
"He's very demanding, that’s what I can expect – and I think that’s the perfect match for a club like this.
"Standards are really high – he’s a person that you can see has really high standards and he stands by them, so I hope that can be a really good match and that we can win together, that’s what I wish the most."
Amorim’s first match in charge will be against Ipswich on November 24, with Ruud van Nistelrooy continuing as interim manager until then.
The former United striker will oversee games against Chelsea, PAOK and Leicester again before the international break.
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[31/10, 4:44 pm] Warren Michael Tate: there's a story that came out you know when there was like all the deli called the illegal comment by how much surrender and like you're getting more compact capacity when I don't if anybody has ever started this you and this team right and there was a thing in the day right instead of bread outline this particular comment you would be absolutely does the thing in the paper this morning did you see the thing on people going to you know Spain totally ridiculous flooded and when we're all this tacking this morning and a lot of families have never heard that we were the same like it's just ridiculous but Rosie like a people are saying to me would you ever to cargo today but it read sudden sun Times of the year certain times of the day you be just taking good racist you pay a hundred you felt like 140 quit for at least a thousand million for that much but when you think about mercy you'd ask yourself why would they do for because increasing nervousness as like you would actually go okay I ain't gonna stop that but then like you're asking for something to do with it but by now like you're saying by now like you're asking them who would they be involved with because like the generosity generosity to do with it but the generality like you take like say 30,000 it was absolutely [31/10, 4:44 pm] Warren Michael Tate: ❓ [31/10, 4:44 pm] Warren Michael Tate: [30/10, 1:26 pm] Warren Michael Tate: besztsggsy i'm a cruise the you tomorrow um hi bearings ok so we'll talk in the morning because i am i know my about it today it could be italy from worse we had a good [30/10, 1:26 pm] Warren Michael Tate: besztsggsy i'm a cruise the you tomorrow um hi bearings ok so we'll talk in the morning because i am i know my about it today it could be italy from worse we had a good [30/10, 1:26 pm] Warren Michael Tate: ❓
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