Written by Tinpot Club
The goal we let in was an absolute cluster****. All outfield players were in the Burnley half but Jack Stacey played it back to the keeper Aaron Ramsdale. As Simon Francis and Chris Mepham were both near their box if we didn’t win the initial header from Rambo’s punt we were going to be in deep trouble. As it happened, it wasn’t a swift counter from Burnley, but with players rushing back into position, the organisation wasn’t great and that’s why we lost Jay Rodriguez.
I kind of want to blame the substitution of Philip Billing for Dominic Solanke, but as someone else mentioned it’s hindsightitus.
I actually thought the effort was good Saturday it’s just the quality in the final third was abysmal. That’s a big worry. You can motivate players to work harder, you can’t make players deliver more quality than they possess.
Joshua King out wide is a plus point but we really need to hope Junior Stanislas is fit and can make an impact asap. For all his faults, he’s the only player who can understand the role Lewis Cook was trying to play.
I do think the formation can work. It was certainly no more blunt than the 4-4-2 we’ve seen over the past few months. Dan Gosling tried to get forward as is necessary from a midfielder in a 4–3-3. He just doesn’t have the talent to receive the ball on the half-turn and that failing is killing our attacking play. Without someone capable of doing this, the wide forwards come deeper to look for the ball and it turns into 4-5-1.
AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe told the Daily Echo…
“That’s sort of what they (Burnley) try to create, those types of games. A bitty game, a lot of restarts a lot of stop-start action. We could never really get fluid.
“You always have to look at yourself first and we could have done better.”
“There were a lot of free-kicks (34 in total). I think we were guilty of some needless mistakes in that respect.
“Every free-kick we made was going to go in our box. We then had to defend a long aerial ball, so we will kick ourselves with some indiscipline.
“I think from their side, that’s how they play, that’s what they try to create. We had to try to navigate our way through that better than we did. It’s another lesson learned.”
Your say…
JIMNNINA wrote…
Another home game at fortress dean court with no goals, no chances, no saves from the opposition keeper. Becoming a bad habit carried over from last season.
Lots of individual effort but poor tactics and the first half a 5 man midfield was overrun. Ryan Fraser was very poor in possession, Solanke doesn’t seem to know where the ball is, target man good in the air good hold up play being converted to deep-lying non-scoring attacking midfielder.
Stacy, Mepham, Diego Rico, Jefferson Lerma didn’t deserve to be on a losing side.
The craven Atkinson was bullied by the Burnley players, far too many challenges that played the man not the ball, the assault on Fraser was clearly careless and reckless and injured the player.
The ginger Allardyce does seem to have Howe’s number. – Join the conversation, click here.
