Gosling can't stop scoring

What has happened to Dan Gosling of late? He seems to be popping up in all the right places to get on the score sheet and his goal against Southampton was just perfection. He will be missed now that he has a calf injury, but his season has been very much improved by his recent performances.

Bowling gets the job done.

I still can't understand why Bournemouth find it so hard to get many goals from central midfield. Even though the team likes to naturally play with wide men and get crosses in from the wings, AFCB should be creating more chances for their central midfielders to get on than they do. Dan Gosling has been inspired of late with a superb goal against Brighton and an even better one against Southampton, of which he owed a lot to the running ability of Josh King. But Gosling had to keep up and get himself along side the move which he started off with Lerma in his own box.

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What Gosling does is bust a gut to make the extra man. Perhaps we have not seen that enough in some games and the running power of the team through the middle was so much stronger against Southampton, which makes you wonder why can the players do this now? I suppose they have been working on improving different aspects of the game, but Bournemouth look a better outfit when they have a midfield that can attack centrally as well as out wide.

It is a pity that Gosling won't be likely to make any more of those kind of runs this season, but we have to encourage Hyndman to step in and do as well as he did at the end of last season. Hyndman has certainly been under used and it will be important for him to try and fill Gosling shoes in the remaining games. On current form though that will be a huge challenge.