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The Guardian » Bournemouth
15h ago
Welington can beef up Saints, Ola Aina returns to SW6 and Raheem Sterling has the chance to roll back the years
Premier League top scorers: Golden Boot race standings
It may have taken Brighton’s record signing a few months to settle in but the performance of Georginio Rutter in their thrilling FA Cup victory over Chelsea showed that the Frenchman was worth the £40m they paid Leeds in the summer. A brilliant header to equalise before setting up Kaoru Mitoma’s winner gave Fabian Hürzeler’s side the confidence boost they needed after their 7-0 mauling against Nottingham Forest, with Rutter jus ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
6d ago
Goodison Park commemorated Everton’s history in the FA Cup before kick-off, the Park End awash with banners related to the club’s five triumphs in the competition. Bournemouth consigned Goodison’s FA Cup story to history. Cup ties have been played at this famous old stadium for 132 years. There will never be another.
Andoni Iraola’s tireless, intelligent team tormented Everton once again. After the dramatic comeback here in August and last month’s win at the Vitality Stadium, the final act for Sean Dyche, Bournemouth made it a hat-trick of victories over Everton this season to advance into the ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
1w ago
Marcus Rashford could make his Aston Villa debut as Birmingham aim to bring Newcastle back to earth
For spice, consider how this tie is the sides’ third meeting this term. Manchester United won the first two with an aggregate of 8-2, Ruud van Nistelrooy was interim manager for each, then Ruben Amorim made the Dutchman unemployed when taking over as the head coach in mid-autumn. Now returning to Old Trafford as Leicester’s manager, Van Nistelrooy can expect a warm welcome due to his former status as a star United striker. But if he engineers a knockout of the holders, Van Nistelrooy will be rec ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
1w ago
Arsenal relish City demolition as Sels shines while Liverpool carry on regardless at the top
Any successful title challenge needs a statement victory to install belief and reset previous concerns. Beating Manchester City must now be Arsenal’s foundation and not the zenith. Arsenal have played much of this season as if distracted by situations beyond their control – referees, their rivals’ dispositions and their relative luck with injuries. The second-half performance was a reminder of how Mikel Arteta previously took Arsenal to the verge of title wins, playing high-grade attacking football, pr ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
1w ago
Home fans irate after Liverpool awarded first-half penalty
Visiting goalkeeper makes vital saves to keep clean sheet
“Having Mo Salah definitely helps,” said Arne Slot after the Premier League’s leading goalscorer notched twice at Bournemouth to stretch Liverpool’s lead in the title race as the Egyptian continued to write his name in the record books.
A 2-0 win at the Vitality Stadium left Arsenal with a deficit of nine points to bridge. “If you want to win here, maybe you need a bit of luck as well, because the margins are so small,” said Slot. Andoni Iraola’s team had previously beaten Man ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
1w ago
Arne Slot’s team are masters of making their opponents, Bournemouth this time, look as if they are in poor form
Liverpool this season have been very good at being good enough. There have been very few games in which they’ve dismantled the opposition. They have won fewer league games by more than three goals than Tottenham have, but ended the day nine points clear at the top with their closest rivals to play the defending champions on Sunday. If Liverpool do, as they surely will, go on to win the title, it will have been an old-fashioned sort of success, a league won not by the spectacular or t ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
1w ago
Liverpool marched on, though with no little relief, their post-match celebrations reflecting the importance of victory. Arne Slot’s team had not triggered the traps Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth had used to snare the top-four contenders Manchester City, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest this season.
It was Mohamed Salah who snatched the three points. If his first came after a highly debatable penalty award, the second, a left-foot chip like a prime Tiger Woods approach shot, was a goal of inarguable beauty. In negotiating one of their most demanding remaining assignments, Slot’s team, now nine point ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
2w ago
Andoni Iraola’s side host Liverpool on Saturday and look like one of the league leaders’ toughest away assignments
At any time in the Premier League, there is a model club to follow. In recent years such a label has been attached to Brentford and Brighton. Before that Southampton’s managerial recruitment and scouting network was feasted on, Mauricio Pochettino moving on to manage Tottenham before Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mané and Adam Lallana also left to join Liverpool and became Champions League and Premier League winners there.
This year’s model? Undoubtedly Bournemouth, Liverpool’s seventh-p ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
2w ago
There’s a huge game at Bournemouth, a huge game at Arsenal and … er, a huge game at Portman Road
Premier League top scorers: latest Golden Boot race
Nuno Espírito Santo said that at Bournemouth last weekend, where they were humbled 5-0, his Nottingham Forest side had been “not accurate and missed a lot of passes”. It is interesting that four of Forest’s past five – and five of their past eight – Premier League games rank in their bottom eight of the season on pass completion. “We have to perform much better,” he said. “We have to be more solid and play better football. We have so many things ..read more
The Guardian » Bournemouth
2w ago
Sandro Tonali sets the tone, Manchester City debutants have mixed fortunes and Brighton must find their edge
As a cure for the Sunday fear, the self-identifying worst Manchester United team in history’s trip to Craven Cottage was pot-boiling viewing. It will be some time until Ruben Amorim can stage high-end entertainment of a Wolf Hall standard but at least relegation is now unlikely to be the series conclusion. United fans were singing the manager’s name once Lisandro Martínez’s fortuitous winner span in. A fragile belief is growing. Such are the lenses on United any result is seen as a sign ..read more