 Welcome to this week's preview show, BBC Radio Solence Chris Temple is back alongside me as we look ahead to another weekend in the Premier League. Here's what's coming up today. We'll be looking back at last weekend's 1-1 draw against Sheffield United here at Vitality Stadium and we'll then be going on to look at tomorrow's game against Aston Villa at Villa Park. But first we're going to start back at last weekend in that 1-1 draw with Sheffield United. Chris Meppen got the goal but here are the short highlights. Ryan Fraser's right-footed ball is deep and in comes Billing, nods it down, that came with an overhead and turn, Callum Wilson, Meppen! The centre half from close range, it bounced around twice and Meppen was there to drive it home and after 62 minutes the Cherries take the lead. Oh we have three goals in it. As you said the ball was dancing around, people made a couple of saves but it was Meppen. Well I don't think he hit it cleanly but who cares it hit the lack of the net, that's the main thing. The lack he had a go, Callum Wilson had a go saved by the keeper and then Meppen drove it into the ground and it may have been that slightly unclean connection from Meppen which actually helped it go in as it bounced over the goalkeeper who was already on the ground. So David McGoldrick going off and Oli McBurnie coming on, the Sheffield United change that was already planned before that goal went in. Don't underestimate Billing on the far post who headed the ball back, a magnificent header, absolutely. Two and a half minutes left, it's down the right side of the box where Bulldog will drive it in, right across the six star box, beaten away, Billing! The Cherries were not switched on, they may have got fortune at the other end. When they scored their goal the fortune went United's way this time. It bounced a couple of times off defenders and the former Southampton man Billy Sharp poached it home with two minutes left. Bournemouth won, Sheffield United won. Well again, Rueco was involved, it slipped down the side of him. Two people are in the wall and he's one of them. But you also have to cover the slider ball down the side of him. Well that was last weekend our season opener against Sheffield United. Chris it was an interesting game wasn't it, one one and one that the Cherries might have looked to get more out of. Yeah we're two minutes to go, you thought they were going to win it, probably unjustly actually, I thought Sheffield United did enough to get a draw. I think the worrying thing for Bournemouth's point of view is the front three just didn't fire at all, I mean Callum Wilson was hardly in the game. Joshua King had one of a couple of those runs but then it came to nothing. Ryan Fraser didn't really get an opportunity to get in the game that much. So I think when you've come off a good pre-season obviously bouncing off that result against Leon here, three-nil when the attacking thrust looks positive and they scored a few goals in pre-season both Callum and Joshua King have been on target in pre-season and Ryan Fraser as well. So I think that was the disappointment was the lack of sort of I guess coherence between the front three and thrust as well. Now I know that it was a new formation and Sheffield United were you know sat back quite rigidly for a lot of the game until Bournemouth scored. But I think that the biggest sort of concern out of it, of course apart from the way the goal was conceded which goes without saying, I think that was the biggest worry really that the front three just didn't look themselves and in a home game you know against newly promoted opposition you've got to look to that to have your big players all three are internationals to be at it from the word go and it's sort of strange how you can be looking good in pre-season and a week later when it actually matters you're like oh hang on a second we're a bit rusty so yeah that for me that was a sort of the thing to take out of it was a sort of lack of sharpness I guess up front. And one thing that may have frustrated fans a little is you know not making a substitution to the 89th minute Dominic Slanky coming on and you know not giving much time to impact the game despite again a good pre-season for him. Yeah substitutions I know have been a bone of contention for a while and some people feel that Eddie should you know roll the dice a little bit quicker. Sometimes he has a sort of formula where he'll drag people at half time if it's not working often the hour mark is quite a sort of a notable time for him to make a couple of changes if it's not going well. Maybe when he was starting to think about making changes they scored of course you know in that period in the second half so it might have been that things were starting to happen in the background that we will never know about and the goal change matters. And then you know once you're one nil up do you necessarily need to need to change it. Sheffield United didn't carry a lot of threat until their subs came on. McBurney came on and obviously you know started to busy himself a little bit. Billy Sharp obviously scored the goal. I should mention about the goal by the way. I've seen a lot of talk on social media and forums and things about VAR and whether that goal should have been disallowed under the new rules where if it hits a hand and it creates a chance from which a goal is scored it should be chalked off. Now I spoke to Eddie Howe about this they've looked at it from every angle slow motion and they're happy that it was the right decision that a goal was given so that should hopefully just clear that one up from their point of view because I'm sure they would have found a way to to say that they got VAR'd but they were they were happy that was a goal. And when you look at the game across the whole 90 minutes you know one really good chance in the first half which fell to Chris Meatham and then the chance in the second half again fell to Chris Meatham. He had an interesting afternoon didn't he Chris Meatham because after 30 seconds of all sales over his head catching the wind and you know suddenly David McGoldrick's through thankfully Aaron Ramsdale got him out of a hole there. You're right just behind us here he sort of snatched at the shot he felt like he should have scored that and then he was the sort of unlikely poacher when a bit of pinball around the box and let's face it both goals were messy. Both goals had you know very sort of similar characteristics to them but yeah great for him a great day for him to score your first Premier League goal he'll never forget it. I tweeted a stat out after the game that Chris Meatham has scored two goals in his career one for Brentford one for Bournemouth both in one-one home draws against Sheffield United which is just ridiculously random. But yeah for him defensively is that the key part of his game goals are a bonus and obviously defensively you know himself Nathan Akke and a not fully fit Steve Cook will take a bit of time again I think to gel when they play in that three. Talking of the defense just behind the wheel Aaron Ramsdale Aaron Ramsdale in goal he chose to go with him what did you make of his performance. I thought he did really well yeah I mean as Mark Travers you know Mark Travers had more to do in the game down here against Spurs. But I thought Ramsdale did absolutely everything that you could have asked of him he kicked well. The one thing I've noticed about him he has a real confidence I've seen that from him you know you'll have seen it as well around the camp he's got a real character he's not a sort of a wallflower let's put it that way and maybe he's you know maybe he's done a little bit of maturing over the last couple of years maybe the loan spells you know have sort of I guess got his mind focused a little bit as well but he made a couple of great saves a good a good punch this end as well where he came out and cleaned a few people out so I think you know thrown in as a 21-year-old on your Premier League debut and of course a nice fairy tale against his old club against the manager who gave him his debut so there was some nice sort of romantic lines with it as well and I think probably my favourite line after the game from him was that he was really looking forward to going to watch his old teammates AFC Wimbledon and the Carabao Cup on Tuesday because he made a real connection with them and he went on to say now is my time to make a connection with Bournemouth and the fans because now is my chance on the pitch on a Saturday to show what I can do and hopefully the fans will come to to like him here as much as other clubs have and another player we saw last week Phillip Billing made his Premier League debut for Bournemouth and he did what he did well didn't he? I thought he did well I thought he looked good in there for a guy who hasn't played a lot of football only been training with Huddersfields under 19s over pre-season alongside Jefferson Lermer there's going to be some thunderous tackles going in in that midfield the only thing I'll say on on that sort of pairing is there's a robust nature about it there's a sort of a dynamic physical nature about it is there enough creativity in that pair that's what's going to be under the microscope over the next couple of games I think to see you know fair enough in a job in a two they'll they'll protect the bat four very well we saw Billing have an absolute thunderbolt of a shot which when you saw the side on angle for that it was like it had come out of a cannon great save from the keeper and the keeper somehow dive into his left ended up injured his right calf so that's how that's how it sort of sent shot waves through his body but yeah so that's the key Lewis Cook obviously is coming back from America this weekend with Simon Francis so he's going to be back in training so he's only going to be I think three or four weeks away probably so he obviously provides the creativity but Billing and Lermer will be in there for now and I like what I saw from from Billing first up and a slight blow before the weekend was Dan Jume he he picked up an injury in training we're not sure the extent of it just yet but that was a little bit of a blow yeah he won't be available this weekend so yeah when you sign someone for what was it 13 14 million pounds you and he plays in pre-season and doesn't make the first game of the season that's obviously disappointing so he remains sort of I guess a bit of a ghost figure in the background that we won't know what we're going to get from him until we see him in a Premier League game exciting exciting talent for sure bit of a connection with him because of a couple of Villa summer signings of ex-bruge players as well like he is so yeah at the moment the jury will remain firmly out on him until we get to see him hopefully soon absolutely well next up our attention turns to the game against Aston Villa tomorrow at Villa Park let's take a look at what happened last time we played the villains well goals from Steve Cook and Joshua King there Chris we'll be hoping for a more of the same tomorrow won't we yeah I mean Villa fans we're going to encounter Villa fans in a different mindset today because that was the result that pretty much sent them down back at the end of the 2016 season but it's a it's a passionate vociferous place to go people say every stadium is but some are definitely more than others and Villa Park that whole 10 when it gets going it's an absolutely massive stand but that was a you know encouraging performance catching Villa at a bad time then for sure the Villa the Bournemouth are going to face this weekend you know completely different riding the crest of a wave but Steve Cook and Joshua King I'm sure they're both like to open their goalscoring accounts away at Villa again tomorrow and speaking of you know Villa Park it is a bit of a fortress to go and first home game this season it'll be absolutely rocking won't it yeah Bournemouth fans will remember back you know in 2015 when Villa came down here and upset the Premier League party first ever Premier League game Villa with the visitors and won one nil here possibly slightly against the run of play as well so I suppose Cherry's over one from that point of view to go up there and to to spoil their big Premier League homecoming they've sold 30,000 season tickets there and they've got 8,000 people on the waiting list which just tells you the the magnitude of the club they've spent 140 million pounds over the summer on 12 signings now money doesn't buy you success that's one of the old cliches Fulham spent loads of money last year they've gone down but they seem to have recruited quite strategically of course quite a lot of the monies in the bank account just behind us here for Tyrone Mings which I'm sure Cherry's will be looking forward to coming up against and hopefully getting one over him but yeah Dean Smith and a bit like Chris Wilder last weekend for Sheffield United a bit of a romantic fairy tale supported the club as a boy used to sweep the whole tend when his dad was a steward you know a local lad and again another one like Chris Wilder who's earned his stripes in the lower leagues as manager of Walsall and Brentford and here he is getting his Premier League chance and we should mention Richard O'Kelly of course former Cherry's assistant as well who was assistant when Eddie was a player here back in the Seanair Driscoll days so another one who's you know great for him to get a Premier League chance so yeah there's a nice story with Villa but I think the money they've spent their billionaire co-owners now who've bought the club outright they've just bought Villa Park as well for £53-54 million pounds they look to be having a right crack and what did you make of Villa's performance last week they were up against Spurs a tough team and for 70-80 minutes things were going very well weren't they yeah if you look at the shot count after the game I mean I think it was 31-7 in Spurs favour the game didn't pan out like that it took Spurs an hour to get going you know Villa will have stunned that stadium John McGinn scoring early on John McGinn is Ryan Fraser's roommate on Scotland duty by the way they have quite a lot of mental and social media if you've ever seen that so that'll be a contest to look out for tomorrow in there sort of midfield or the wide areas but yeah I mean Villa what a tough opening game that is to go to Spurs but to go one nil up you know game plan for half the game was going brilliantly Spurs through on Christian Erickson obviously here we've seen against Bournemouth can can often change the game so in the end Spurs had had too much power for them but that's the life of teams outside the big six is if the big six are on their day it's going to be very difficult so yeah Villa fans will have enjoyed it for an hour I'm pretty sure and will have been encouraged by the way their team played Tyra Mings I think had 17 clearances more than anybody else in the Premier League last weekend so he was certainly a busy boy and he's become very much a fan's favourite there well you mentioned Tyra Mings it's it's a shame he didn't really ever get the chance here you know with his injuries to show what he could do but he seems to you know have settled in Wallet Villa yeah last week there was a bit more room between well there's a bit more room this week because we had Willow between us here and he was a huge fan he is a huge fan of Tyra Mings and thought he could be something quite special you know eight million pounds best part of eight million was was quite a lot for a player of his experience when he signed here as a left back converted to centre back injuries you know he just had such bad luck with injuries what he came in you know he mixed bag of performances you know he might make a mistake or two but when you're coming in you need you do need that time to gel with your defensive partners he never really got more I don't know exactly what the status of how many games he played in a row but I'd be amazed if it was any more than six or seven in a row so for Bournemouth that is so yeah going to Villa last year I think it was the sort of resurgence new lease of life he needed became a cult hero there his performances there obviously and they were Bournemouth debunked the price up a little bit I think it was an initial 20 million or 21 million and then a few extra bonuses and things he's even been talked of in England circles already so I hope for him he can stay fit and do brilliantly I hope he does never great game this weekend because I want Bournemouth to win but yeah what a player I think he could have been and still could be it's a shame but Bournemouth won't I guess see that in a red and black shirt and speaking of the Villa squad in general we've talked about Tyrone Minx you mentioned John McGinn but who are the ones to look out for because of course as you say they spent an awful lot of money well Wesley up top is one of their new signings who again is a little bit of an unknown quantity in terms of English football so he'll be sort of leading the line he played up front on his own last weekend which again for an introduction to Premier League football will have been will have been a tough one Trezeguet wide on the right Mahmoud Hassan but known as Trezeguet simply because apparently he looked and played like David Trezeguet when he was in one of his youth teams age nine that's why he's called Trezeguet not because it's his actual name but it's his official name on his shirt and obviously you know Tom Heaton in goal was a great late signing for them as well eight million pounds so what a you know a lot of people linked Tom Heaton to Bournemouth actually as well before you know when the the goalkeeping merry-go-round was a bit more uncertain Bjorn Engels heart of the defense has already formed a very good partnership with Tyrone Minx they didn't lose him pre-season Villa so they've had quite they won every single game scored a bag load of goals so they seem to have gelled pretty early on the one I'm interested to see is Douglas from Manchester City the Brazilian midfielder who never played for City hasn't played first-team football for a couple of years but he's just got his work permit through pretty sure he was on the bench last weekend and he's a city player they don't let many good ones go city 15 million pounds he could be and again he could look a bargain by half way through the season and of course in terms of our team news we said earlier no Dan Juma but apart from that there's no fresh concerns for Eddie how to worry no still I mean as we we're going to say every week but Steve Cook is didn't look fit last weekend he did say he started a struggle after about an hour of that game last weekend his groin has been playing him up so he's going to be managing himself I think I said that last weekend but other fitness worries you know Dan Juma was the only blow really on the on match day that he wasn't going to be available the other ones Lewis Cook Simon Francis are in America coming back Sunday Monday Francis is a bit further behind Junior Stanislaus is still a little bit away Lloyd Kelly still a few weeks maybe four or five weeks it does get yeah and then Gosling we've got to mention as well who's a good still two or three months away I spoke to him this morning as well he showed me his scar which is very nice of him I didn't really want to see it just after breakfast to be honest with you but yeah so there's a few around David Brooks of course you think of where all those are back fit but you know ultimately last weekend the team had a decent enough look about it but obviously was rusty and you know was nowhere near the levels and people will talk about the 343 formation and whether that suits Bournemouth I don't know and Harry Wilson I would think would would get a go this weekend definitely and as per last weekend I am going to ask you for a score prediction what did I say last week I'm sorry you didn't know you said 3-1 to Bournemouth last week see Willow last week said 2-0 he always says 1-1 he said 2-0 last week and it was 1-1 so he should stick to his guns I would I think Bournemouth would take a draw right now I think Villa are going to be decent at home this season I don't think the attacking three can be as blunt again as they were last week so I'm going to say they're going to click and it's going to be 2-2 because the last three away games last season produced 19 goals 5-0 at Brighton 3-3 at Saints 5-3 at Palace I know the pressure was off by then Eddie loved that stat didn't he in his press conference he loved me throwing that at him yeah so I'm going to go 2-2 2-2 well there we go if you are over 18 and you want to take part in predicting the score then you can head to mansionbet.com this week's winner can win two hospitality tickets to our game against Manchester City with the overall winner of the season winning a training ground experience that's all we've got time for for now but if you are going to Villa Park have a safe journey if not make sure you keep an eye on all of our social media for the latest updates bye for now