Games could be more possession based thinks Howe

The Bundesliga has given everyone an insight into what games behind closed doors might be like. Eddie Howe said that he had seen some good away performances in Germany, and the games were perhaps less intense than expected, while sides were playing in a relaxed manner and possession was key in most victories. Whether the same pattern will happen in England when the Premier League restarts is open to question.

Howe hopes that possession hungry teams do well in the restart of the Premier League.

The interview that Eddie Howe gave on AFCB TV this week was a little insight into how Eddie Howe is feeling, but with the players around him I am sure he is far more anxious. He admits that the league could be very different with the form from previous games now gone, but at the start of the season AFCB tend to be a team that get away quite well, and Howe can only hope that this restart gets AFCB away from the bottom three. AFCB pride themselves on being a possession team, but it doesn't always bring results. It will be interesting to see if the tempo of games is a little slower than usual in the Premier League, somehow I think it will be as frantic as ever once we get into second halves with the bottom six teams especially scrapping for their lives.

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While Eddie talked about keeping the football pyramid in tact, it will soon hit everyone that the Project Restart is only a quick month or so of football. Matters will soon turn to preparation for 2020/21. I'd like to get Eddie's thoughts on what he thinks about possibly starting the next season behind closed doors, no matter what league AFCB are in and what kind of impact that would have on the Cherries if they are in the Championship?

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All this is in the future and Eddie Howe has to concentrate on the present. Winning matches is clearly going to be his biggest concern at the moment. While Brighton have decided to use cardboard cutouts of fans, AFCB seem content on just seeing empty seats at home games, but I am sure that any advantage AFCB can give their players they will be working on it.

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We'll only see whether AFCB have been doing the right things when the results start to flow through. With three games in the first week we will either be feeling much more confident or expecting the worse after seven days of football starting on 20 June.

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