 And welcome to our second preview show of the week here at Vitality Stadium. BBC Radio Solence Chris Temple joins me as we look ahead to another big weekend in the Premier League. Coming up on today's show we'll be looking back at that Cup win over Forest Green in the week. We'll also be talking to women's manager Steve Cuss who joins us ahead of the first game of the season on Sunday. And finally we'll be looking ahead to the game against Leicester City at the King Power Stadium tomorrow. But first we're going to start back at Wednesday night and that Cup win over Forest Green Rovers. There were some fine saves from Mark Travers in the penalty shootout to send us through. A shootout it is after a 0-0 draw. It's King, first up no problem. Scores into the right-hand side of the goal. Mills steps up, lifted and Travers makes a good save. Moving away to his left-hand side it remains 1-0 to Bournemouth after one penalty. He's got to do his job from 12 yards here up against Wallachock. It's going to be right-footed, stuttering run-up and rolls it into the bottom left-hand corner. Red and black fans, they're waving them to try and put Dawson off against Travers. He saved it again! 2 out of 2 Mark Travers. He's having the luck of the Irish at the moment, the big man. Here comes Ivan to put the cherries right in the box seat. Right-footed, saved by Wallachock. Down to his left. Not a great penalty, good save. James Morton to try and get Forest Green on the board here in the shootout. Travers again! 3 out of 3 for the cherries goalkeeper. Can the big Danes see them home here? It's Billing, rifles at home! No mistake from that one and in the end the hierarchy tells the Premier League side go through and they all run to their Irish goalkeeper Mark Travers. Well some brilliant saves from Mark Travers there. Chris it wasn't as comfortable as Eddie Howe would have liked was it? You could say that, yeah. I mean first of all let's just start with those saves from Mark Travers. I mean literally nothing gets past him here. You know I know he shipped five away at Crystal Palace on the last day of the season but he actually didn't have much to do in that game did he? Realistically played the ball out with his feet quite nice. His distribution was impressive. He has that sort of the roundhouse, I always call it a roundhouse kick, a sort of sideways, volleyed kick that goes flat down the field which I think I can't remember who's tow it landed on at one point but really impressed with his distribution, his concentration and yeah in the penalty shootout I saw a couple of cherries players tweeting that they wouldn't want to be taking penalties against Mark Travers because first of all he's so massive. So yeah really good for him and the team yeah I think not lucky to go through but a lot of huffing and puffing, end product wasn't really there, a combination of you know bounces of the ball and a bit of bad luck and a lack of quality in the final third as well and a bit of a lack of confidence in the final third from the strikers at the minute as well which is now that's I guess a bigger concern. We might be coming onto that a bit later but all in all you know picking out some of the players in that game I thought Kilkenny had a great debut until he tied a little bit towards the end. He seemed to be very happy to get on the ball, confident to take people on, receive the ball in tight areas so yeah I think he's been a real sort of emergence, a real find and he's definitely accelerated through I think better than any how thought he could so he's you know in the fact that the club have got through to the next round means that he'll I'm sure get another opportunity. The one that stood out for me was Chris Meppen. Again Bournemouth weren't under a lot of pressure defensively but I just thought he had a real sort of composed calm authoritative look of things at the back there when he was taking charge. He made one crucial interception at the near post where the guy behind him had a tap in. The three on one I'm pretty sure that was Meppen we broke down there three on one towards the end as well so yeah he was he was one for me I thought do you know what Chris Meppen that's a real sort of step forward for him. I know it context of opposition, league two opposition of course compared to the Premier League but with the injury to Charlie Daniels the game which is what I'm sure we'll mention later on that could involve a bit of rejigging at the back and that could see Chris Meppen continue to get plenty of minutes in central defence so yeah he was he was one that I wanted to pick out as having had a real good game and Harry Wilson again I thought was excellent. Harry Wilson again he had a chance in the first half and then Joshua King had that header in the second half and we had Dominic Solanke who you know he went down in the box was it a penalty was it not but there were the chances there they just weren't taking anything. Yeah just the final ball and a couple fizzed across the penalty area didn't they? Yeah I mean Dom Solanke he needs a goal of some description scored a couple in pre-season of course but you just feel like in competitive matches it's just not falling for him at the moment and until he gets up and running you know I think you know the manager's pretty happy with what he does behind the scenes and you know he's made an impact as a sub a couple of times but he you feel like he needs minutes he didn't have a lot to feed off with Callum the other night because Callum is a bit short of confidence I think as well he does a lot of work for the team that doesn't involve scoring goals of course that's the thing with Callum is you can't judge him although he is a number nine you can't judge him solely on his goals column he does a lot of that physical work a lot of running particularly away from home but he just feels like he's not quite started his season yeah he's in the England squad hopefully he'll get on in one of those two games against Bulgaria or Kosovo as well and that's good for his confidence as well so yeah the sooner that Callum gets up and running in the goals column the better and speaking of confidence it was a obviously a win in the cup but all wins breed confidence and that will set them up well ahead of the weekend won't it? Yeah I think I think more probably for the individuals who came in and did well rather than the team as a whole because drawing nil-nil against a lead two team you know on the face of it shouldn't be that good for confidence but getting through is the main thing it's been a good competition Burton away you know there's a bit of history attached to that fixture as well it's not an ideal draw really that's a bit sticky to be honest with you but Bournemouth have had quite a lot of luck with home draws in the the league cup I think in the last two and a bit seasons the only away ties they've had have been Chelsea away twice so they were probably due an away trip so yeah a nice place to go back in some fond memories from the lead two promotion of course but yeah all in all to take forward a clean sheet I suppose is a positive to take forward yeah certainly it's certainly better to go through than to have been dumped out let's put it that way and as you said clean sheet for for Mark Travers Chris Mepham did very well a lot of players of estate took a claim for themselves haven't they? Yeah I think as I mentioned Mepham earlier on you know Mark Travers at the moment I think you know the manager admitted afterwards that the the choice between Ramsdale and Travers for the number one sport Mark Travers did miss a lot of preseason because he had a thumb injury that he picked up with Ireland over the summer so you know again great performance for him to have just off in terms of going off with Ireland again that'll give him a spring and a step I'm sure going off to to join up with them for this international break I've seen in this morning actually with a massive suitcase quite a few of the internationals have come in with you think they're going away to Leicester for the night but no they're going off for a good week or so with their international colleagues as well so yeah so that's that's good for him yeah and even people like Kevin Kilkenny that'll give them an extra step in training he's not going to be close to the Premier League squad at the moment but you know if there were any more injuries and I don't think you can really afford any more then he would prove to be a good bench player and as you mentioned Burton up next in in the next round it's not an ideal draw being away from home we have been lucky with the home draws but in terms of opposition it's not obviously wanting to be disrespectful to Burton it's it's a nice draw isn't it? Well you could have got anybody you know you could have got you know Man United, Liverpool, anybody city so you know from that point of view a lower league team is better than getting one of your Premier League opponents it's a different test for a number of reasons you know mentally as much as anything you know raising your game against you know perceived lower league well they are lower league opposition but still with an important job to do and it's a great fixture for Burton these days you know with a Premier League team turning up albeit they would have wanted Liverpool, Man United I'm sure or or Derby from down the road or something but yeah as far as the cherries are concerned it's a tricky tie but it's one that they would be back to get through absolutely well this weekend it is the first game of the season for our women's team and it was quite a strike from Katie Kingshott in the week in the final preseason friendly well a great goal from Katie Kingshott there now as you can see I am delighted to be joined by the women's team manager Steve Cust, Steve thank you for joining us this weekend first game of the season it's going to be an exciting one isn't it? Yeah seems to be a long preseason we're really looking forward to the you know the competitive game starting so yeah the FA Cup it's a little bit unusual to be starting with a cup match but that's just the way the fixtures fall within the women's game so you know obviously a home game in the FA Cup it's one we're really looking forward to and of course you know starting in the FA Cup last year the team got to the the first round proper for the the first time in the club's history and that's something that I'll be looking to do again. Yeah it was a great achievement last year to get to that first round obviously we want to try and do as well as that again this year but it may be even look a little bit further but you know obviously as a manager you've got to just look at the one game so you know Sunday's going to be a tough game for us and we're just going to try and do our best on Sunday and try and get through this opening round. We've had eight weeks of preseason how has that gone from your perspective? Yeah it's been really good it's been really good in terms of working with the players included a preseason tour for the first time which was great down in Devon a couple of nights away bonding with the players as well as spending time out on the grass coaching the players which is really good. Six preseason games against some tough opposition in there as well so you know I think we've learned little bits from everything that we've done over preseason and hopefully that will you know go well for us on Sunday. And that preseason camp it's just as important for the girls to bond off the pitch as it is on it isn't it? Yeah it's something that we added this year obviously we do it with the with the male players across all age groups and so we put it in for the women's team a couple of nights away obviously you spend that time out on the pitch which is good and good for us as coaches to be able to spend that time out on the pitch but the bits off the pitch as well we were able to to socialise together and bond together eat together and all that's going to help us I think throughout the season. And for you what are your kind of ambitions for the season with the women's team? Yeah we want to we want to just keep moving the women's game forward and move in AFC Bournemouth forward obviously last year was a good good season only losing the two games in the league and not getting promoted was was tough to take so you know in many ways we're just looking to try and improve on on what we did last season and see where that takes us this year. And for you you've taken on the women's team this year what was it for you that attracted you to the women's team and made you want to take it on? Yeah obviously as part of my role as head of community and the community sports trust the women's team falls under our work that we do and I've always overseen that since 2015 putting things in place and you know probably the ambition was always to take over the team at some point and it seems right to do that right now and so far in the eight weeks I've absolutely loved it loved working with the players it's been a busy time for us as pre-season always is but you know it's something I want to do well with with the team. And for you over over the course of pre-season a lot of your players have got a lot of minutes and that set set them in good stead for the weekend. Yeah as I said I think the six games have been important as well as the training sessions we've learned something from from every single game there's been some different challenges there and I think that's that's been good good tests for us as individuals and as a team and as always we're just trying to look at those little things that we can take from each game work with the players try and make the players better as we do as a football club here and hopefully if we can continue to do that we get some positive results. And just for those people at home who don't know how can they find out more information about the women's team? Yeah it's all over social media both AFC Bournemouth and the AFC Bournemouth community but on the on the website as well and on the Matchday program so there's lots of different ways of finding out about the about the fixtures that we have coming up and we start we play our home games at Verwoodtown so that's where we're playing on Sunday at two o'clock kickoff. There we go playing on Sunday at two o'clock Steve thank you very much for joining us now then the first team they are heading to Leicester this weekend and Eddie Howe has been speaking in his pre-match press conference. Yeah good for Callum good to see that he's been picked again and I'm sure he'd be very pleased and that'll do in the world of good. Same as any other player it's great to work with players that want to improve and I think that's always the hallmark for me. Yeah a huge blow for him huge blow for us I think our only thought at the moment is for Charlie and trying to support him through the initial the initial shock really of the news because it's obviously a serious injury he's going to need supporting through the initial phases of it we hope the operation goes well and then he can begin his journey back. Yeah not only the dressing room I think this club really does look after his players very well on an emotional level the supporters will rally around him I think he knows how much he's loved here and I think yeah it's been a really challenging year for him and I think Brendan deserves a lot of credit for what he's done at Leicester in really difficult circumstances let's not forget that and but just looking on the pitch I think he's transformed their style of play I think they're very confident in in their skin now they they are adapting to his philosophy and adapting very well to that we go there knowing it's going to be a good game. Well that was Eddie Howe talking in his pre-match press conference this morning now Chris this time last year we played Leicester here at Vitality Stadium and it was a 40 win and they'll be hoping to try and replicate something like that won't they? Yeah something like that would be nice albeit maybe with the clean sheet they should have kept rather than conceding those couple of late goals in that that game but that was a great performance you know and then we look at the reverse fixture up there and it wasn't such a good day losing 2-0 albeit Brendan Rogers had had an impact by then and started to turn Leicester around they had a great sort of back end to the season Leicester and look a really good unit now and I would be thinking that they could easily be challenging the top seven this year they finished ninth last season which actually if they'd had a better first half of the season could you know could well have been much better than that so yeah I do like a lot of Leicester players I like the way they play it's a great ground to visit not just because they have some lovely cakes in the media room by the way but yeah I haven't very much so particularly the Jaffa cake there's a massive Jaffa cake cake it's unbelievable as I really need it as well but yeah it's just a good place to go the fans are very loud there they always play Casabian over the PA system as a local band which is one of my favorite bands so yeah as you can tell I'm looking forward to going but I'm hoping that Bournemouth can get the points absolutely and Brendan Rogers decide they're unbeaten this season and they look strong don't they they held Chelsea as well earlier in the season yeah they've recruited pretty well you know they added Tealamans on a permanent deal from Monaco for a best part of 40 million pounds but he looked to class act last season as well who enjoyed his his loan spell and therefore you know liked where the club was going and on what the new manager was achieving oh say Perris of course he's got scoring form here from his Newcastle days against Bournemouth again a useful sign and they've been playing him sort of wide of a front three at times a bit more solid when they went to Chelsea but of course the one player I really like who seems to have done well against Bournemouth is James Madison had a really good game up there last season ran the show really in the England squad as well as he has been before but he's getting closer to that first senior England call-up as well and still very young I think he's 22-23 so just out of England under 21s sort of duty as well so yeah he'll be one that Bournemouth will need to keep a lid on tomorrow that is absolutely for sure and you know you factor in the fact they lost their star defender Harry Maguire right at the end of the transfer window I mean albeit they will have prepared for that in the background I'm sure they knew that was going to happen so yeah they've they've had a bit of overhaul one or two players can't get in the team likes a Damari Gray great player can't get in their team at the moment so yeah really a really talented squad who like to play the right way and they had a very similar midweek to us going through on penalties they were obviously against Newcastle so for them they played Wednesday night just like us so so both teams will you know have had the same amount of us yeah the other thing about that is that they didn't hardly change two players possibly yeah where's Morgan came in and one I think only one other if I'm off the top of my head but yeah they've treated the competition with respect they were way at a Premier League team who Newcastle were a little bit on a high from their win at Spurs of course as well but for Leicester and for Bournemouth and this competition is a real chance of silverware absolutely is so Brendan Rodgers has got confidence in his squad to go and play Wednesday and then play again on Saturday you know everyone talks about the recovery and the turnaround he's obviously trying to build a bit of a momentum with his sort of you know some of the new players they're betting in and yeah I think fair play to them for going for going that strong and going through you know time will tell whether that was the right decision but if they go on to win the Cup it will be a great decision if all their players stay fit as well but Bournemouth don't have the luxury of such a big squad and obviously have quite a few injuries at the moment as well so yeah I was surprised to see how strong Leicester went though and speaking of Bournemouth's injuries the big story to come out this week is Charlie Daniels that season-ending injury it's such a shame for him isn't it just coming back last week it's just so hard to sort of find the right word for it really I mean first of all it's absolutely devastating just such terrible luck for Charlie who and particularly having worked all summer you know the lonely yards over the summer when he's had a bit of time away on break he's been in the gym doing his rehab on holiday a lot of the time he's been here working hard in the gym rehabbing when the other players have been either away on holiday or away on preseason got back ahead of schedule you know and the manager admitted he said a couple of weeks ago didn't he I asked Charlie if he could do a job for us and he said he could away at Villa what a job he did you know he got through the 90 minutes then just over there behind us the most innocuous you know no one no one no contact no one near him his other knee and just a terrible injury so as much as the physical rehab now it's got to be a real emotional and mental support now and I know the club is you know excels really and that side of things looking after people and that's what Charlie will need now he is a strong character just talking to a couple of other players this morning they they say that Charlie sort of has a he has a very very brave face on things it all through his sort of some of the more negative moments of his last 12 months or so he's always come in been the sort of chirpy guy you never quite know what's going on behind the scenes but the front facing Charlie Daniels has always been one with a positive outlook so he'll need that positive outlook this time and this is a real bad blow at this stage of the season and you know it seems almost you know I guess churlish to say from a footballing point of view Bournemouth it gives them a problem at left back because Diego Rico you know hasn't found hasn't found a consistent amount of form so there's going to have to be a reshuffle if you're asking me now I wonder if you might play Nathan Acke at left back at Leicester last time you played left back Bournemouth won five nil away at Brighton so that would be an omen yes it's food for thought in that position isn't it obviously Diego Rico there Nathan Acke we've seen Adam Smith play there and with the way Jack Stacey played the other night at right back it wouldn't be as surprised if Jack Stacey went into right back and then Adam Smith into the left back position that's the thing isn't it I mean as we mentioned before about strengthening the fallback positions Lloyd Kelly is still a little bit away who's an actual left-sided defender yeah Jack Stacey played the other night it's a big step up to the to the Premier League for him it actually come up against his the opposite fallback from Luton last year James Justin he went to Leicester over the summer but yeah that's that's the decision do you go with Adam Smith at left back and Jack Stacey at right back do you have to play her back free with someone like Ryan Fraser maybe playing on the left of the midfield four which you don't really want I know Adam Smith doesn't like playing left back you'll obviously do a job wherever he's asked to the manager feels that Adam Smith played some of his best games at left back actually so that might be bad news for Smithy in terms of having to swap over Diego Rico you know you're 10 million pound left back you're looking at and going that should be enough cover but yeah for whatever reason it just isn't quite happening for Diego at the moment whether a run of games is the answer whether Eddie has the confidence to put him in for a run of games particularly away from home we'll wait and see but again if I was a betting man and I don't know anything on this I just wonder whether with Meppam having done well this season that sort of alleviates the problem of moving Nathan Ake out of centre half so I would say Ake at left back Cook and Meppam and then Adam Smith at right back and just finally you know what's coming I am going to ask you for a score you are this week it's been asked me at the city at home off camera I said city 3-1 by the way of course every time um you want to score dear yeah okay right fine um I mean you take a point at Leicester definitely take a point at Leicester I might have to go with a willow 1-1 a willow 1-1 because Leicester have been solid this season haven't conceded many goals um I'm going to go for a willow 1-1 draw well a willow 1-1 draw then well if you are at home and over 18 and you want to have a go at predicting the score you can head over to Mansions website to have a go at yourself this week's winner will win a signed born with a shirt that's all we've got time for today if you are going up to Leicester then have a safe journey but if not make sure you keep an eye across all of our social media channels for the latest updates bye for now