AFC Bournemouth made the trip to their closest geographical neighbours in the top six tiers of English football on Thursday, for what the home side insist isn’t a derby.
Clubs up and down the land have derbies with numerous clubs, however, Southampton supporters claim they can only focus on Portsmouth and no one else.
Following this result, Southampton took one step closer to enjoying that fixture once again as “the Saints” stay rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table following a pretty comfortable (for a 1-0 scoreline) defeat against the Cherries.
The result with just 5 games remaining of the 2022/23 season puts AFC Bournemouth 12 points clear of Southampton, 8 points clear of Everton, 7 points ahead of Leicester City and 6 points ahead of both Nottingham Forest and Leeds United.
With the three points securely in the bag, AFC Bournemouth head coach Gary O’Neil told Sky Sports that he was already shifting his focus towards Sunday’s home fixture against Leeds United…
“It’s a big win for us, of course, The performance was pleasing. I thought we were by far the better side today.
“The lads are recovering for Sunday [at home to Leeds]. There’s no celebration, there’s not talk of points tallies. I can easily see 36 points going down this year. We won’t be resting.”
"Disappointed the lads didn't let me enjoy the last 20 minutes by scoring a couple more" 🤣
Bournemouth manager Gary O'Neil is happy with the win but would have preferred if they took their chances…
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SlowDownDerek wrote…
I mean, that was bad, wasn’t it? I know they like to try and patronise us and give it the old “big brother” stuff but Blimey, their support tonight was horrendous, wasn’t it?
Fair play to the lads to the left of us for giving it a go for the first 20 minutes but they just gave up before we’d even scored.
Embarrassing on and off the pitch to be honest.
"It's a big 3 points for us… every point matters"
"We have the right to be confident"
Marcus Tavernier and Dominic Solanke reflect on the Cherries third away win in the Premier League for the first time ever…
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Neil Dawson added…
Thought the same. They’ve been a lot louder in previous relegation battles. Like a team and stadium accepting their fate
In contrast to Leicester who put in an equally beaten before they started performance on the pitch but the fans had all been given clackers and made a right effort to rouse a team with nothing going for it.
I think without JWP as well they lost grip for a decent period. As others have said, they can’t have watched us.
Most Premier League assists provided by strikers this season:
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RobTrent said…
Wish we’d sung “you can stick your south coast derby … !
What a fantastic result. I was so high after that I almost collided with some orbiting space junk. Turns out it was the ball from Harry Arter’s wayward penalty.
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