 Welcome to the first preview show of the week where BBC Radio Solence Chris Temple is virtually alongside me as we look ahead tomorrow night's game at Vitality Stadium. Here's what's coming up. We'll look back at last weekend and that's the feet at Old Trafford. Before we move on and preview tomorrow's game against Spade. Well let's start back at last weekend and that five-two defeat to Manchester United. Chris it seems a bit weird to say having conceded five goals but there were certainly some improvements in areas weren't there. It's funny you have like one more comment to you on BBC Radio so you have you sort of building a thread throughout the game of how you think it's gone and elements of the performance then you look at the score at the end and it's five-two and you're right it's slightly strange to think you're sat there trying to justify why you're thinking it's been a little bit better but I mean the the general feedback we had from fans and that I've read on Twitter that people have tweeted in and things was that yes elements of the performance were better. Of course you're playing against the team currently in a purple patch with some absolute world-cast players. Of course United have had their ups and downs over the course of the last year or two but unfortunately Bournemouth caught them at a very good time and yes conceding nine goals in two games is nowhere near good enough and that won't that defensive record won't keep you in the Premier League but on the back of the newcastle performance which had pretty much none of the elements that need to keep in the Premier League. It was a better in many regards yes of course there are areas of course that can be improved on but I think it's just given people that little bit of you know Bournemouth have gone to Man United and lost sort of meekly four-nil and you know people have been well it was alright but I think people would be probably starting to lose even more heart but I do think it's just given people a little bit of an injection and given the other results it is needed to as well. Two home games now and basically I would say these these next four days coming up two games at the vitality stadium I think this is I think this is it I think between now and Sunday this is it and I just want to talk about at the start of the second half you know we've seen Bournemouth go two goals behind against Palace and a newcastle had not really shown much of a response but there were two goals behind at half time and they came out all guns blazing at the start of the second half. Yeah and you know well yeah two goals behind but thankfully they'd scored one themselves this time and actually shown some bits and pieces going forward which was good and great goal from Junior Stanislaus and again I think if that was a higher profile player not making an 80 million pound defender and slipping one in at the near post that would have probably got a lot more column inches than if it was just a little old Bournemouth because that was a brilliant bit of skill from from junior and I thought he was excellent I thought he really was and a player who looks like he's needed the minutes to get himself back he hasn't been in the team every week he's sort of been nursed back and I've said many times to you and many times on the radio that Junior Stanislaus what a player if we could keep him in the team week after week without sort of these niggling fitness problems but I thought he was brilliant I thought he was you know the amount of space that he was able to exploit and again it comes back to a team that plays the way United play allowing a bit of space for Bournemouth to get in behind on the counter makes Bournemouth's natural game so much easier than trying to break down those rigid banks of four and five that we've seen from previous opponents and I know that's all part and parcel of it you've got to overcome different tactical challenges every single week but yeah Junior was excellent I thought Joshua King and Dom Solanke were much more like it and yeah as you say coming out of the start of that second half Dan June was only just come on he's all of a sudden hit the post Dom Solanke with that driving run to the edge of the box Lewis Cook nearly scored I mean these things that you know momentous occasions even Lewis Cook nearly scored and the penalty goes in you're thinking brilliant you know game back on here great start to the second half at three two and then bang suddenly it's four two five two and the good thing is that Aaron Ramsdale made a couple of excellent saves late in the game to make sure that the score had some respectability I went blue in the face on on the radio on on Twitter talking about the fact I don't blame Aaron Ramsdale for any of the goals apart from the free kick I thought possibly his positioning was a bit a little bit questionable but apart from that I don't think you save any of those and I don't buy the the fact that if you get your hand to something you should save it I don't buy that at all because those those shots from Greenwood and Marciel particularly the Greenwood ones were traveling like absolute tracers so I don't think there's anything to blame Aaron Ramsdale for there actually some of the saves you made probably you know enabled the team to come away with you know smidgens of confidence if you like rather than if you get done six or seven then all of a sudden that's a pretty low place to come back from. You mentioned the confidence there and enough until that United game the first three three games that's the football had restarted Bournemouth had just two shots on target across all three of those games on on Saturday they had three on target seven shots overall so as you say there's little bits to take from that game little bits of confidence that can hopefully get get them back into the squad ahead of the group. Yeah I mean there's an element of straw clutching here isn't there that we're celebrating having three shots on target but you're right I mean it's a much more but attacking threat this time a couple of wild shots off target as well but I just thought if everybody you know particularly attacking wise everyone seemed to have that little bit more thrust in them then it seems to have that little bit more of a spring in their step. We're talking about attacking mainly and of course you're not going to win any games by keeping clean sheets specifically you've actually got to score and be a threat at the other end but I thought Lord Kelly had a great game at centre half yes of course there are moments where you know he got turned or he got you got done by Bruno Fernandez quite early on in the game as well but to be slotting in there all of a sudden against that attack in your second ever Premier League start you know there's big hopes for Lord Kelly I think and hopefully fans were encouraged by what they've seen from the first couple of games so far and we'll come on to the team a little bit later on but it will remain to be seen whether he will be continuing at centre half for this game but yeah I mean attacking wise some some shots on target was good and I think just just the combinations and just the belief and the the drive if you like just to make things happen was much more evident and I don't it makes it hard to wonder where it's been in this situation given that that's what they need they need to score goals they need to to make chances happen it's it's hard to to wonder why it's taking these amount of games for that to reappear absolutely well next up we are going to turn our attention to that game at Vitality Stadium tomorrow evening and Eddie Howe has been previewing that in this morning's pre-match press conference yeah it's been a period where it's definitely been hurting and nothing's affected my my motivation to turn it around though I think that's the key thing I love this club so much love every part of it that I'm determined to do everything in my power to make sure that we maintain our Premier League status that's the the big drive for me but I see a lot of hurt in the dressing room I see a lot of players who really do care if you looked at our dressing room after recent games there's certainly not been a lack of a lack of those type of emotions I've got great professionals here I've always maintained that and I still maintain that to this day despite the results going against us the players are determined to try and turn it around we still have time to do that we still have the opportunity to do that we scored two goals we could have scored more the offside flags than I had us on a couple of occasions so I'd love to think that that feeling that we had that we could have come away from old Trafford with more goals than two we'll re-spark that belief that we can score well that was Eddie Howell speaking in this morning's press conference Chris they'll have to look back and have fond memories of last year's one no-win and be hoping to reignite some of that spark tomorrow won't they yeah well I'm looking you're looking back down the list of results and things for just little markers and little omens I mean yes the Spurs game last May last home game of the season of course I know lots happened in the game the Spurs went down to nine men and Nathan Ackay of course scored that last minute winner which always you know resonates pretty well when you you beat the big six but also in that dramatic fashion as well Mark Travers you know what a game I mean actually just thinking about the game I actually watched the highlights back on the on AFCB TV just ahead of this game just to remind myself of that day because it was the sort of day that does really bring a smile to your face when you think about everything that happened and actually let's not forget Nathan Ackay was playing Central Midfield that day because Bournemouth didn't have any Central Midfielders left pretty much it was a bit of a patched up team obviously Mark Travers was given the nodding goal surprisingly by Eddie just to see what he was about and he turned in that fantastic performance so yeah I think that's the sort of game now people look back and go whoa lovely Harry Kane didn't play that game of course as well which is always always handy when he has the record that he has against Bournemouth although albeit not in the last couple of times he's played Bournemouth so yeah that that game is a happy memory and also I was looking back to the only time that Bournemouth have lost five in a row this season and it's you know it's not the sort of record you want to have more than once in the season losing five in a row but that is the current record at the moment they went to Chelsea after losing five in a row earlier this season patched up team no one gave them a prayer pulled off a one-nil win so it's been quite a while since the Chelsea have lost six in a row and I remember bringing this stat out in December when they were going to Chelsea and they managed to pull a result out of the fire there so I'm I'm clean to that as an open this week though I like that I think if we look at Spurs since the football's restarted they've had some mixed results they obviously had that three one-to-feet Sheffield United bouncing back to that one-nil win over Reviton so it's been a bit of a mixed bag for them hasn't it? Yeah they've had three out of four at home so far and the only game they've had away was at Sheffield United where they just didn't bother turning up basically lost three one they don't keep clean sheets away at all I think it's one in 23 away from home in terms of clean sheets and Bournemouth of course haven't had a clean sheet for I think it's 15 games now so yeah both teams are not so adept at keeping the goals out particularly on the road Jose Mourinho's side I think only Aston Villa I'm off the top of my head here but I think only Aston Villa have kept less clean sheets on the road than Spurs this season so yeah as you say in and out Harry Kane obviously like a lot of the Bournemouth players nursing his way back from an injury and trying to get into a bit of game time as well I have to say I watched 15 or 20 minutes of the Everton game earlier in the week against Spurs and switched over because I was bored to tears watching that it wasn't a great game I know you know Eddie and his coaching staff were about to sit through the whole thing but Spurs often under Mourinho it's one of those things sometimes teams don't play that sparkling of football they're still in the European mix of course that was a very important three points for them in terms of the table and they very much have tangible things to go for like the teams that Bournemouth are still playing Leicester to come of course right in the Champions League shake up Southampton Everton can they sneak into the the European places Southampton at the moment you have to say might potentially have a chance but it's back to Spurs yeah in and out much better at home than away I'm looking for positives here and of course Bournemouth have haven't really had a whole lot against Spurs down the years a nil nil draw in a lunchtime kickoff back a few years ago and obviously the one nil last season but earlier in the season you know three two defeat at the top of Motspur Stadium Harry Wilson popped up with a couple of goals but ultimately that was a pretty comfortable day I think for Spurs as well and one thing talking of positives Spurs they've obviously played that game on Monday night Bournemouth have had their game away from home and so they will will that extra two days come into play at all that paid Spurs you know two games in three days is a tough ask especially when you haven't had football for three months yeah I have to say well I've originally looked at the fix so I didn't realize they were playing on Monday as well as Thursday that Monday gave almost snuck up on me because that's quite a heavy schedule at this stage with players and I know Joseph Rooney has gone on record I think we said it last week about he thinks that minutes are better for players the quick games are actually better to rediscover their fitness levels rather than being drained but you do see other managers having to rotate you know asked through last night changed a few out in terms of having to a quick turn around as well so Tottenham have had a pretty a pretty heavy schedule I've looked off the top of my head I haven't got exact dates but it's something like six games in I don't know 18 days possibly that they've got and then a clear week until the last game of the season so they were a bit slower getting out of the traps than other people in terms of their fixture schedule so I'm not quite sure why they've ended up with with so many games in a short space of time but as you say I don't think it can be an advantage just first to be turning around again so quickly whereas Bournemouth will have had a few days excuse me since the United game to to get themselves back together but of course from a Bournemouth point of view Thursday Sunday against two top half bigger teams is a quick turn around and if you don't get a result in the first game I'm sure the legs will feel that little bit heavier going into the second game and in terms of our team you see spoken with Eddie Howard this morning Steve Cook obviously missed out on Saturday's game with a minor hand string injury we had David Brick sort of come off at halftime as well look like he might have might have picked up a little knock there what's the latest what did Eddie Howard have to say to you this morning well the Steve Cook news is he's getting closer which you know that's always the hard one for Eddie Howard when he throws that one out there you never quite know how close people are because Joshua King remember hadn't trained and all of a sudden he started so back to the old Steve Fletcher days for old supporters when Steve Fletcher's knee made him a doubt for every game but he started every single game Chris Mepper not such good news on him it sounds like he there might be a possibility of him having to have an operation which is not great for for him I suppose at this stage of the season if you can't be involved you've got a few weeks to get yourself back up and running for next season but you feel for him when he's obviously spent so long getting back and it looks like you might need a further a further sort of exploratory procedure there so fingers cross for Mepps. Callum Wilson obviously is back this week after two games out and been working very hard ball accounts behind the scenes and you know again if you just wanted someone to click back into their sort of goal scoring international form if you like that got him in England England caps then it's time for Callum I think to to step up saying that I thought Dom Salanki and Joshua King were much better as I said earlier on against United but at home they're going to go two up obviously two up front so Callum is into any team if he's available basically as far as ball but they're concerned David Brooks is a strange one because I do think he's I do think he's struggling from you know the lack of football and how quick this is all coming back he hasn't he hasn't really influenced much so far we've seen little five-minute burst room here didn't get into a taller old traffic he was he was a bit of a non-event unfortunately came off at halftime no injury issues apparently he's fine but I think Eddie Howe does admit that David Brooks is finally getting a little bit difficult to sustain it in matches he's apparently showing some great stuff on the training ground but game time there's no substitute it's a cliche there's no substitute for the match minutes that will get you back to your sharpest so I think Bournemouth have improved every game in terms of looking a bit sharper junior Stanislaus has improved with minutes and as we said earlier on has been a you know a great addition in terms of what he gives you and the other thing about junior is he's very experienced these days as well I think he's 30 so he's seen quite a lot of things and we talk about leaders on the pitch he's not you know he's not a renter and raver junior he's quite a quiet you know well thought sort of intelligent guy but that's the sort of experience you do need because it is a young team we saw you know there was a video doing the rounds of Aaron Ramsdale Adam Smith having a little bit of a to do a bit of a teta teta after one of the goals and that will happen you know that that shows a bit of a bit of fights on a blame culture it's just you know people taking responsibility people showing they're up for the fight so as far as it goes this week I think these four days of the season I really do two home games Watford's result over Norwich suddenly has put that little bit of pressure on in the table whereas before you had the advantage of other teams slipping up and saying well okay we're warm with our winning but that nobody else is either so it's still only a point well now it's four points so failure to take the opportunity even a point against Spurs if you get it back to within three one result the goal difference is all sort of concerted up a little bit down there with teams sort of shipping three and four last weekend so I really do think though that certainly a win against Spurs throws it right back open but then other teams have got some very winnable games in the next couple as well so there's a chance that even if Bournemouth do win against Spurs the gap could still be four points because other teams could still get results as well so for me the season comes down to these these next four days basically we could be sitting here Sunday night nine o'clock after the Leicester game and for me it'll either be on or unfortunately it'll probably be off well a huge week of games with those two fixtures that game tomorrow against Spurs you can listen to Chris and Willow doing live commentary on AFC BTB and we'll be back on Sunday for preview of that game against Leicester bye for now