Bournemouth will have to look out for QPR's new recruits as they take on the London side at Dean Court. QPR have been boosting their numbers with the signings of Albert Adomah having been released by Nottingham Forest and Chris Willock from Benfica, as well as Charlie Kelman a striker from Southen United. The Cherries managed to keep hold of Josh King and David Brooks, and their successful attempt to land Cameron Carter-Vickers from Tottenham took them into extra-time on deadline day.
QPR come to Bournemouth on the back of two 1-1 draws against Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough. Lying in ninth place, five points behind the Cherries Mark Warburton's team will know they have a tough task to halt the Cherries' unbeaten run. Lyndon Dykes is going to be available to QPR despite having a busy time on international duty for Scotland. Bournemouth fans will be encouraged by the fact that QPR haven't won any of their last five away games.
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How many of Bournemouth's international players make the starting line-up is harder to work out. Chris Mepham was injured but played a couple of games, and Jefferson Lerma has done a lot of traveling while David Brooks was hardly used, and Josh King had the Norweigan games and all the transfer speculation to deal with. We also saw Junior Stanislas and Charlie Daniels in training as well as new signing Rodrigo Riquelme. So Bournemouth are likely to be not far off full strength.
The strong duo of Dan Gosling and Jefferson Lerma could be split up in this game to give Lerma a chance to recover from a busy week. So an opportunity for Philip Billing, who warmed the bench for Denmark this week, could be likely and he'll be pushed by Lewis Cook for a start. The other key area is upfront and whether Jason Tindall sticks with Dominic Solanke and Arnaut Danjuma at home. This seems to be the most likely choice with Sam Surridge on the bench.
I expect the Cherries to be tested more in the next four games with Cardiff City, Watford and Bristol City all having promotion aims. This is the start of a key period when AFCB can start to build a gap on some of the likely rivals for the promotion places.
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