Do Bournemouth have winnable games remaining in March?

There are six more points available to try and pick up in March for Bournemouth those points could give them a big gap on the teams below if they did win them, but it has been a while since we have seen back to back wins and even longer since we have seen an away win for the Cherries.

Jack Stacey and Nathan Ake should be available on Saturday.

Bournemouth should not feel that the results of the past should influence what is to come. They need to believe that if they can play as well as they have against Chelsea and Liverpool that they can do even better against teams lower than that in the table. Strange results happen at the end of the season so Bournemouth can't rely on other teams to do them any favours when they play other bottom clubs. It's all about what Bournemouth do now and that means looking at the fixtures in a positive light. 

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Crystal Palace may be viewed as the easier of the two games as it is a home match, but they have win three of their last five games, while Wolves have only won two of their last five. Palace get unexpected results and are difficult to score against, so it will be important that Bournemouth don't get frustrated if they can't get an early breakthrough. We saw in the away match how Bournemouth couldn't break Palace down when they only had 10-men and they were hit on the break. Howe will have to guard against this Palace side's counter-attacks better than they did in December.

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While Bournemouth won't be worried too much about Wolves at the moment, it has to be hoped that they can go into that game with three points under their belt. That would make the game seem much more winnable as the confidence should be there then to see the team know that they can take a big step towards survival, if they defend well against Wolves, who will surely attack heavily at home.

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Bournemouth have to view these games as winnable. They need to pick up points now to try and ease the pressure and get out of the bottom three. It will mean disappointment if they don't get the points, but I can't see there being any less pressure on them if the players were told three points from the two games would be okay. Howe has to set them up to go and win both games.

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