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Joelinton again finding a Bournemouth player after being pressed.

Awful cross Murphy.

That's what's surprised me, we will have been well warned beforehand. But this really does test your technique and a few have been found wanting.

Burn...fucking hell.

Joelinton getting rushed off the ball that time. Any weak touches are getting punished here.

TNT UltraHD is behind a few seconds and that's with the cameras at the ground

Please deliver a better corner this time.

I don't think it's fatigue, I think we aren't coping with how quickly they are pressing us.

Testing some temperaments under pressure.

How? We've barely been playing 15 mins.

Beating us at our own game so far. We would have been told to expect this, execution is lacking.

Bruno getting caught repeatedly so far.

Some of our players possession play is going to get tested today. Already Burn and Livra giving the ball away under pressure before that goal.

Well that was coming.

What a save Dubs.

Expecting a hard game but I think we'll be ready, and will come out on top at the end of the day.

Yeah we went to a 5-5-0 formation against Arsenal and basically just shut up shop, but in that game we did it effectively even given the amount of subs we made. I thought we looked a bit sloppy against Wolves, that's all.

Fair point, but you would have thought our defending should be better with fresh players on, it was mostly attacking players who were taken off. I think Howe would have wanted us to keep the clean sheet, and it was kind of lucky that we did.

Quite interesting, because if Wolves had better finishing, we could easily have conceded a couple of goals against Wolves. A flawless defensive performance it was not.

Price will have gone up after last night, he's making the headlines and being talked of as a future England keeper now.

Eddie wouldn't though, Osula only gets on the pitch for the last 10 mins if the game is already won. If Isak gets injured, the reality is it would be Gordon up front. How would you feel about that?

One of those where you get the feeling Howe really likes him since the links have been persistent for a long time now. Given Eddie's success with the transfer policies I'd be happy to go with his judgement no bother.

He has, but Tonali's recovery pace as the deeper midfielder has made such a differences to our defending. And our results.

Great post.

I mean it was pretty much said we weren't going to be making any signings this window a couple of months back so I barely even bother checking in here with any real excitement. I do think we'll buy in the summer though, but a lot depends on where we finish this season.