Bournemouth are in a difficult place right now. Eddie Howe can be pleased that the team is getting harder to beat, but they are still getting beaten and they are not quite producing enough up front to get anything much out of games. In away, it is like Bournemouth are in a quagmire of potential but no fulfilment of their aims appear possible with every fixture seeming just as hard as the last game.
However, the international break certainly helped in terms of organisation if we look at the Spurs game. The three centre backs made it very difficult for Spurs and only the genius of Christian Eriksen really caused problems for Bournemouth. Stopping Spurs' big stars rampaging through the middle of the pitch was a valid call and out wide Bournemouth had their wing backs to try and shut down the number of crosses.
The problem was Eriksen kept up his intensity and managed to find some space in the centre of the Bournemouth defence in the end. Bournemouth still have these moments when they concede having done so well. It was unfortunate in this game as AFCB could so easily have been ahead first and if they had scored early the game plan would have become even stronger.
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All the teams in the Premier League are good sides. If Crystal Palace can go and beat Chelsea having not won a game prior to that, or having scored all season, then we should know that anything can happen in a top flight game. It should not matter to the players if it is Wembley or the Bet365 stadium, AFCB have to beat the 11 players in front of them and they need not only a win but a back-to-back win just to get themselves involved in the league, because at the moment they are fading away into obscurity.
However, the international break certainly helped in terms of organisation if we look at the Spurs game. The three centre backs made it very difficult for Spurs and only the genius of Christian Eriksen really caused problems for Bournemouth. Stopping Spurs' big stars rampaging through the middle of the pitch was a valid call and out wide Bournemouth had their wing backs to try and shut down the number of crosses.
The problem was Eriksen kept up his intensity and managed to find some space in the centre of the Bournemouth defence in the end. Bournemouth still have these moments when they concede having done so well. It was unfortunate in this game as AFCB could so easily have been ahead first and if they had scored early the game plan would have become even stronger.
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Bournemouth did not react quickly to change things either after they had gone behind and that was perhaps a slight mistake, as Ibe and Defoe did make a difference when they did come on. So the game plan didn't quite work this time, but AFCB have found a good way of playing against the best sides that come on to them.
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