A ✨special✨ @LFC performance!#LIVBOU pic.twitter.com/s8CxLVMp9z
— Premier League (@premierleague) August 27, 2022
AFC Bournemouth travelled to Anfield to take on a Liverpool side who had been recently embarrassed by their performance against rivals Manchester United.
The Cherries, potentially under strength due to a lack of new signings following promotion to the Premier League, compounded by an ever-growing injury list received the full wrath of Jurgen Klopp’s squad.
With Lloyd Kelly, the latest to miss out due to being unavailable, the captain’s armband was handed over to Adam Smith.
AFC Bournemouth head coach Scott Parker told Sky Sports after the game…
“This is the toughest day as a player and certainly as a coach, This is the toughest and most painful day that I have experienced, for sure.
“It goes without saying it’s a real humbling experience and one which was pretty shell-shocking, really, in the sense of the result.
“And probably not surprised so much, to be honest with you, in the sense of the levels we’re playing against here and the quality is just far greater than what we have in this present moment in time at our disposal.
“While of course it’s not me making any excuse because there’s some goals in that game that were of our own doing in terms of the set-play goals were really poor and we can do something about that.
“But at this present moment in time I feel sorry for the fans, I feel sorry for the players, to be honest with you, because at the moment we are just a bit underequipped at this level from where we have come from.”
"I'm disappointed for the fans and players" ⚽
Bournemouth boss Scott Parker reacts to his side's 9-0 defeat to Liverpool 👇 pic.twitter.com/jzCNnmvBc3
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) August 27, 2022
Man of the match against Liverpool
Travers
Zemura
Senesi
Someone else
No one
Written by Lord Snooty
Is Scott Parker saying the right things?
When your manager keeps saying things like:
‘We’re under equipped.’ (This evening)
‘We need to work out whether we want to give ourselves a chance of being competitive this year. At the moment, that is not the case.’ (August)
‘We are lacking in a lot of areas.’ (August)
‘I think we look a bit vulnerable.’ (Before the Villa game)
Whilst all of these comments may be totally true in terms of the shallowness of the squad & lack of recruitment…
Does it help the players we’ve got?
Does it give them confidence?
Do they feel they are good enough?
I’m not sure it does
I’m not even sure it does Scott any good himself.
He looked like a little boy lost when his dad hugged him after today’s game.
#afcb #livbou
A dad turns to his son. A son who incidentally is wearing his cardigan inside out & has a weird set of stripes down one side.
‘Don’t worry laddie,’ says Dad, ‘when you grow up & become a proper football manager, you’ll learn from this mess of yours today.’
🍒😔 pic.twitter.com/8scRUUlYmc— Lord William Snootsworth (@Snootsworth) August 27, 2022
wayne189@ added…
Still very early but I just don’t think Scott Parker has it for the Premier League to be honest. We look similar to his poor Fulham side that was battered and relegated. He seems like he’s given up and expects us to be relegated. I bet he’s even booked a holiday over Xmas somewhere nice and warm expecting to be sacked by then. – Join the conversation, click here.
Asked if this will be #afcb's lowest point this season, Parker said "at this moment in time, where we currently are, I can see some more to be honest with you."
Very clear he felt for his players today, and did not fault their commitment and effort.
— Daniel Davis (@dan_davis20) August 27, 2022
🍒 Just to clarify my own tweet, I’m referring to whether owner trusts SP recruitment now, ahead of these final few days of window, or whether other input is taken on board. #afcb https://t.co/PXb7QsZUvr
— Kris Temple (@kristemple) August 27, 2022
kirsikka wrote…
After Man City, I was pretty chipper. Yes, they outplayed us but there were a few forays forward (for which we got punished) and I didn’t feel like we were overrun as badly as we have been by them in some past games where they didn’t score as many.
After Arsenal, I thought the first 45 was the worst I could remember from an AFCB team in an awfully long time. It was horrendous. The match was over but at least in the second 45, we gave them something resembling a game.
After today, it feels like we took all the worst points of that first 45 v Arsenal and tried to replicate them for the whole match. There was nothing good.
The performance in each game was significantly worse than the one before. I’m not bothered about losing these matches but I worry about the tactical regression over the series.
Today is the sort of result that makes owners/chairmen itchy. I think Parker needs to show something very different in the next period or we could be looking for a new manager. If we’d have lost the three matches but competed a little I don’t think he’d be under any pressure. However, the utter capitulation today will now focus attention on him and what happens next.
He won’t be able to defend his way out of this situation. I hope we go for it against Wolves.
A dream come true to make my Premier League debut yesterday, grateful for the opportunity, and to my family and friends who have helped me get here, thank you ❤️ pic.twitter.com/9722uWwNJR
— Owen Bevan (@Owenbevan6_) August 28, 2022
NWCherries98 said…
What I don’t want to hear, is either a complete shift of the blame entirely onto the players or 3 minutes of “well they’re in a different world to us, we can’t compete”. Awful management. You CAN compete. You can ALWAYS compete. Whenever we’d lose badly under EH, he’d take full responsibility. Parker set this team up to purely defend, and we conceded 9. If he can’t take responsibility for that, then that’s not the kind of character I want leading this club.
I want to say a huge thank you to all @afcbournemouth supporters who travelled to Anfield yesterday. Given the unbelievable humbling experience we shared you were incredible, standing by the team from start to finish thank you all
— Jeff Mostyn (@jeffmostyn) August 28, 2022
Red_till_im_ded wrote…
It was an embarrassment. Tactically, individually and as a team. It’s embarrassed the club and it’s supporters. Too soon to really dissect everything as emotions will still be running high. The easy option is to blame the fixtures but that’s no excuse. We had to play them at some point. The tactics were wrong. The hardest part will be lifting those players for Wednesday which many will believe we’ll be getting points from. I’m not so sure. – Join the conversation, click here.
