While AFCB have five more games to try and get back to winning ways, the likelihood of seeing them pick up three points any time soon looks a bit bleak. It's not that AFCB have many top teams to play, but they just don't look like being able to keep a clean sheet and in front of goal they have lost their accuracy.
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Before the FA Cup defeat to Brighton, most fans would have seen a fixture against Brighton as an ideal game to get some points. Perhaps not so now. The fixture against Spurs will of course be tough and the away game at Southampton will be like a cup final. Fulham is perhaps the only game where AFCB may find they are against a team that is down even lower than them in confidence. I certainly hope the team have picked up some points before the final game against Crystal Palace.
The players probably have to get their minds off the fact of who they are playing in any of these games and just concentrate in trying to get their own game in order. If the Cherries can just get one shut out, then I think the fans will be back on their side. At the moment though there is a rift forming between fans and the players because the performance are so far off what they should be and what we know they can be.
Looking at the way the team are playing, the manager has every reason to make changes for the next game. He may be a bit restricted in what changes he can make but he doesn't have cause to let players after what we saw against Burnley. What Howe needs is 11 players that want to make a mends and are disappointed with what has gone before. It's a difficult one for the manager to judge as he'll have to work out those that really are out of form and those who can buckle down and raise their game even though they have under-performed previously.
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