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And some crazy errors and refereeing decisions. Doesn't really matter in the CL but on the night I'm sure it felt like it mattered a lot.

This is a summary of our Ashley transfers dealings. Who's available rather than who do we need.

I don't think anyone is suggesting he has been any good for Manure. Which is why it's so mind boggling that they persist with him.

He made some cracking saves in their last game, but otherwise I agree that he makes some terrible decisions and errors.

It's not like they walked to SJP. That was very clearly tired legs, I've seen them, I've had them, that's them. The easy passes get misshit, the poor passing option is taken, the runs aren't tracked. It's only part of the picture and not taking anything away from Bournemouth who were clearly superior. Howe likely won't have trained at all with them since the midweek game.

They played a day earlier. So effectively 50% more recovery time than us.

It's not an excuse it's an explanation. Howe intended, or hoped, to make earlier subs against Wolves and couldn't because of how competitive they were. It was what we saw in the period where we had Champions League games an a thin squad so couldn't rest anyone. Here we have more depth in certain positions but didn't balance them across the games well enough and it showed. The Wolves game was High intensity and there's a big difference between 2 days and 3 days in regards to recovery. Travelled all over mate, England is tiny.

I agree. @Dazzler we've realised that noone here knows what we're doing and we do require your service after all.

@Dazzler thanks for your prior efforts but you've let everybody down massively here and your service is no longer required.

Totally deserved result, even without the ref assisting them they were heads and shoulders above us. Too many games for the same players to keep backing up in for us, you could tell from the very start. One to immediately forget and move on from. Have a good rest this week and get hungry for redemption against Southampton.

He'll have to get in line on the basis of this game.

Big break now which is needed.

Lovely reverse Isak

Fucking Gordon absolute stinker of a game.

WillO time.

Nice block BDB

The nerve of their players whinging about getting called for obvious fouls.

It's clearly physical, not mental.

Well hit thay Gordon, unluckily straight into their defender.

Tonali will get a job with PETA based on the amount of bacon he's saving.

He certainly gave an interesting press conference.

Yeah ball is miles out, lucky us.

No let's hope that ball went out.

When is the ref going to start dropping yellows for their persistent fouling of Bruno?

Huge factor, a whole team of inform players don't drop off this significantly any other way. Full credit to them though, they have been the better team and deserve their lead. Knew we'd have heavy legs and with 50% more time than us to recover from their last game have really brought their energy.