Hard luck stories only tend to stick with teams that don't do enough to win games. At some point AFCB need to turn the hard luck stories into wins and while Leicester City will not be among the favourites to be relegated, but at the moment they are in a similar position to Bournemouth so it isn't great that the Cherries could not beat them at hime. When your team is at home it has a great advantage, but when they can't make that advantage count there is reason to ask where will the points come from?
This was not Bournemouth's day for one main reason - they didn't cause Kasper Schmeichel enough moments of desperation to win the game. Yes, they started well by Jermain Defoe hitting the bar and Marc Pugh had more than one chance in the first half to put the Cherries ahead. But these chances faded and Leicester themselves had an excellent chance to score themselves when Vardy knocked a ball back for Shinji Okasaki who had time to pick is spot, but fired wide from close range.
Why the shooting has not been up to scratch is anyone's guess, but in recent games the shots on target have been low and Bournemouth have not been hitting their shots with much venom. Eddie Howe looked to find a solution in bringing on Jordan Ibe and Benik Afobe and while Ibe had some impetuous in getting forward, Bournemouth had the perfect goalscorer on the pitch in Jermain Defoe for most of the game and didn't supply him well enough or early enough to help him make the difference between the teams.
Some would say good game management on their behalf but when AFCB have been to places like Goodison and the Emirates they have not shown the same kind of game management to earn them points. There is a lesson to be learnt from this.
Cherry Chimes contributes to The Daily Mail - The Fans' Verdict
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Why the shooting has not been up to scratch is anyone's guess, but in recent games the shots on target have been low and Bournemouth have not been hitting their shots with much venom. Eddie Howe looked to find a solution in bringing on Jordan Ibe and Benik Afobe and while Ibe had some impetuous in getting forward, Bournemouth had the perfect goalscorer on the pitch in Jermain Defoe for most of the game and didn't supply him well enough or early enough to help him make the difference between the teams.
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Josh King as well may look back on his game and wonder why he wasn't packing in more shots against a Leicester City defence that looked all at sea in the first 10 minutes. If it had been a boxing match the fight would have been stopped by half time, but in this game you can cling on and hold out at the back for 90 minutes without creating much and still get a point - Leicester did exactly that.
Some would say good game management on their behalf but when AFCB have been to places like Goodison and the Emirates they have not shown the same kind of game management to earn them points. There is a lesson to be learnt from this.
Cherry Chimes contributes to The Daily Mail - The Fans' Verdict
Game management is a very good point: watched Everton v Burnley, Everton were awful, how we failed to win after King scored is not a mystery with a soft centre. Ake should be deployed in midfield and both Cooks must be accommodated. I have said it before that Defoe and King is not the right combination. I do not believe that Defoe is the player we can utilise with our current style of play. King needs to be the mai striker with Stanislas as the number 10, thereby we can engage Frazer or Ibe. Mousset should be given a chance ahead of Afobe.
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