Still too many mistakes from Cherries

Whatever Eddie Howe says about the point gained against West Ham, he knows that the Cherries are still making far too many mistakes in matches. This should have been a game when AFCB basically wrapped up the points by half time. Instead they let in a simple goal from a near post header from a corner and not only could not close out the match when 2-1 up in the last 10 minutes, but very nearly got nothing from the game.

Asmir had a game he'd like ti forget against West Ham.

It was an exciting game to watch with West Ham needing the points as much as AFCB, but the goals as a whole were pretty disappointing. AFCB have to find ways of defending better than allowing three goals to be scored against them at home. They won't win points from many goals like this and the turnovers that happened in midfield when no pressure was on the ball make you wonder what they have to do in training to get their passing better.

At the other end, Bournemouth may be upping their shot count but the accuracy has not improved significantly. Until Bournemouth stop making mistakes in front of goal they will be at the bottom of the table. Yet, the goals have been arriving from different sources which is some comfort. But there were great opportunities for Jordan Ibe, Ryan Fraser and Josh King to finish the Hammers off and the amount of misses are getting costly now.

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Adrián did play well in West Ham's goal but the Cherries didn't manage to extend him enough and he won't have minded so much that many shots were struck right at him. Bournemouth used to be a side that would score a lot of goals and that average is still not climbing quickly enough at the moment.

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