 Hello and welcome to another preview show here at a very sunny Vitality Stadium. It's a busy week so myself and matchday commentator Chris Temple will be digesting it all in the next half an hour or so. Let's take a look at what's coming up. We'll be looking back at that 1-1 draw with Wolves last weekend. We'll be previewing tonight's FA Youth Cup game in Manchester City here at Vitality Stadium and finally we'll be turning our attention to the game against Arsenal tomorrow night up at the Emirates. Well we are going to start back with that draw against Wolves here at Vitality Stadium on Saturday. Let's remind ourselves of the highlights. Number nine for the season for Joshua King. He scores for the third successive home game and the cherry's home form keeps on ticking. Won that up against Wolves. We say can run on a cover some ground. Here's Johnny now off the left hand side for Wolves. All of a sudden Docherty's in there. He scuffs his shot. It's a penalty! Adam Smith came in with a challenge on Matt Docherty. It is a penalty to Wolves. Well Docherty got the shot in which bobbled away past the post, but the referee has pointed to the spot for the challenge by Adam Smith. We said Wolves like a late goal. Eight minutes left. They've got a chance to equalise. Can Jimenez find the finish that Wolves are looking for against Arsenal? Boric rolls it into the net. Wolves are level. 1-1. The away fans celebrate. Wolves pick up the ball and run straight back to the half-row line. And there could be late twists here. 1-1. Well it was a strange decision, wasn't it? The referee's up to a three decision. Gerry's looking for penalties. Now Fraser will get in the period. He's gone down. That's going to be a yellow card for Ryan. No, it's a penalty! A penalty! Bournemouth have it this time. Fraser went down. I was sure the referee was going to book Ryan Fraser for diving. Instead he pointed to the spot after a protracted delay. And less than a minute after conceding, Bournemouth have got a chance to go back in front. Away in front of the north stand. What a game this has been. King is missed it. Joshua King went to the same corner. Low to the right. And missed it off the outside of the post. Well a point a piece on a very entertaining afternoon here at Vitality Stadium. Extended highlights and the full 90 are available on AFCB TV for free. Chris it was quite a game, wasn't it? And I'm also in that second half. So many talking points. So many decisions that could have gone either way. Some feel Bournemouth probably got the better of those decisions on the day. Wolves fan certainly, if my social media is anything to go by, we're very angry about some of the decisions. But I think it goes back to the fact that if we had VAR, we'd still be here now looking at the decisions. There were so many that you just couldn't tell what the right decision should be. I think even now people would struggle to say definitively what the right decision was. I thought the referee had just a stinker really. He had a bad day. I thought Bournemouth were quite cute and that they got round the referee a bit more. Which I think is something that they haven't done. It's not something you necessarily want to see really. Because you don't want to see under nines over the road at Kings Park doing that on a Saturday morning and getting round the referee. It's all about respect for referees. But the problem is at this level when the stakes are so high. And those things do impact games. And I think and Wolves were round the referee as well. You saw the appeals when Chris Meppham handballed it. Which that probably should have been a penalty as well. And I've changed my mind on that. Because at the time I thought it probably was alright. So that just shows you a few replays. But they were surrounding the referee as well. So I thought he had a bad day. But all in all in terms of the game and the way it went. A point was probably about right. Wolves looked very dangerous on the counter attack. Bournemouth had a couple of good chances. Jordan and I were obviously rattling the ball. That would have been a cracking strike in the second half as well. A bit of a late reality, few set pieces. But nothing was massively close towards Yen was it. So in the end two decent sides cancelling each other out a little bit. And both hopefully will finish quite close together in the table come the end of the season. And of course as you say they're neck and neck. And that game kind of proved it on the weekend didn't it. Their two teams are very similar and probably going to finish in similar positions at the end of the season. Yeah in that little chase. I mean Wolves have got to 40 points now. That just emphasises what a season they've had with still 11 games to go. They're already at 40 which is the first target for any team coming up. So that's guaranteed them for sure. Another season they're probably not going to be struggling. But it's nice to have it wrapped up with 11 games to go. But Bournemouth here, a win on Saturday would have closed the gap to three points to them. So now the gap remains at six. But still they're catchable as our Watford who've got to 40 points as well. West Ham in that little group of teams with their win at the weekend as well. So yeah Bournemouth are in the right cluster with 34 points. And still in terms of the targets for the season I know Eddie will still say it's not enough points to be sure of being in the league next season. Bournemouth aren't going to go down that's absolutely sure. I look at it now as 13 points from 11 games remaining gives Bournemouth their best ever Premier League points on paper with the games they've got to come. Yes not this week but the games they've got to come after that. I think that's hugely achievable and could well beat the if they have you know they put the sort of form together they have been showing then they could well beat their previous points earlier by a few. And you mentioned Chris Mepham a minute ago. What did he make of his full Premier League debut? I thought he did well. I thought it was a nice game for him to come into. He played Wolves last season for Brentford so he knew quite a lot of their players. I thought he was really brave on the ball, took responsibility. He was playing on the right hand side which now he is right footed but he did play mostly on the left at Brentford of the centre half pairing and sometimes on the left of a back three as well. So the other thing worth pointing out is he hadn't started a game for two months. His last start was December the 22nd before he moved here and he had a little bit of an injury. So again to come through 90 minutes against a powerful attacking team I thought he did really well. There's one or two moments where I think Willow alongside me in the commentary as a former centre half just had a slight heart palpitation that he was going to give the ball away or fall over. There was one occasion where he got out of muscle down here behind us and Jota couldn't take advantage of it. Obviously he maybe got a bit lucky with the penalty but all in all I thought I think Eddie Howe was and speaking to Eddie after the game he was really pleased with what he saw from Chris Mepham slotting in there alongside Nathan Ackay who was colossal in there as well. It's hugely beneficial for someone like Chris Mepham because he's got Nathan Ackay in that sort of form. So yeah and a nice little sort of marker for him in a way because he's going into games against Arsenal and Manchester City now it looks like Steve Cook won't be fit for the next couple of weeks at least so it looks like Mepham's going to have that shirt and he will only grow from that performance. And at the other end of the pitch he obviously saw another new signing Dominic Selang, he was very impressive wasn't he as well? I thought he was equally as good to be honest with you. He had a chance which just sort of showed a bit of a lack of I guess regular football recently, a lack of regular goals with that opportunity that he sort of hit the keeper. But now I thought he busied himself, I thought he was a good physical presence. I liked what I saw from his little burst of pace as well which he hadn't seen too much of in his fleeting little appearances before that. A couple of times he really did show a good turn of foot. He's going to be useful at set plays as well. We saw him get a couple of headers in. So no, I really like what I saw of him and hopefully he's going to like Chris Mepham grow every minute he plays on the pitch. And of course another talking point. Jeff Selang, he finally picked up that 10th yellow card. That's going to be a big miss now isn't it for the next two games? Such a shame for him because as a player coming into the Premier League you want to pit yourself against the best. He's going to have been suspended for both games against Man City this season which is he got his fifth yellow card and missed the game at Christmas against them and now he's got his 10th and he's going to miss the next two games. I'm pretty sure I said at the time when he got suspended the first time that it's probably not a bad game to lose him four city away. City at home I would say that's a bit of a shame because you've always got a chance against the big clubs I think on your own patch, much more difficult away. So it's a shame they won't have him for that one. Miss Andrew Sermon will come back in I'm sure and captain the side. And as for the incident itself, again that was probably the thing that got me in the most stick from Wolves fans was suggesting that Gian Martini overreacted from that elbow. Yes there was blood, whatever he did he bit his own lip or something but his reaction was still ridiculous. I'm sorry even if Wolves fans are watching this are going to batter me some more I'll have to mute them all. His reaction was ridiculous, it was theatrical. And when you consider the amount of players that the cherry's had out on Saturday, no Steve Kirk, no Calamalt and no David Briggs it wasn't a bad point in the end was it at all? Yeah no, no Junius Daneslas as well to throw in there as well. I think we listed seven players who probably could well have been in the starting eleven not available. So it just shows adding Klein, adding Solanki, adding Nepp and these are players that have come in straight away and have proved themselves they're going to be up to it straight away. Some players have taken a long time to get up to first team level but I think it's nice for ready to have those. Bring in players in in January if they're not going to be really I don't know Meppam and Solanki a long term sort of propositions really but it's nice that they're able to play straight away. So yeah who knows who's going to be back available for these next couple of games as we say Steve could probably not. Calamalt and David Briggs I think are probably about equally as far away and not going to be available in the next two or three weeks I don't think. So Junius Daneslas is the one who possibly could come back into it for one of these two games as well. But yeah nice that the strength and depth is showing. Absolutely well ahead of our next Premier League fixture our under 18s have a big FA youth cup game here tonight against Manchester City at Vitality Stadium. Let's take a look at all their goals they've scored so far in the competition. Well we'll be hoping for plenty more of those tonight. Chris what a great opportunity it is for these youngsters tonight. Tough challenge next level challenge again tonight isn't it but it is great that they'll be on this pitch behind us fresh from the under 21s of course giving Liverpool a decent game at the weekend and great to see such a big crowd for that one. I hope there's a good crowd tonight for these under 18s who are you know a couple of years behind in their sort of their careers and a lot of them won't make it as professional footballers that's the reality of it but these occasions tonight that's what they have to save on these occasions because for a lot of them who don't go on to maybe ever play on this pitch again and that's realistic. So what it does do is it's a great opportunity to test yourself and say right where are we because beat a category one team in the last round in Aston Villa fantastic win I know Villa had 10 men for a lot of it but still you know great to take a scalp. City also category one but next level category one compared to Bournemouth being category three and again for people that aren't familiar with the academy setups it's to do with resources and facilities and the sort of administrative setups and all sorts of things so Bournemouth are still well below a lot of other premier and championship clubs in that regard but Alan Connell as we mentioned with Sean Cooper before the 21s game at the weekend he's done a great job, he's made an impact and then not just Alan Connell as a figurehead as the coach if you like a lot of other guys who've been behind the scenes for a long time the guys who coach from under 11s right up to the 18s who have been producing these players over at Canford and playing over in Kings Park and all sorts of hard work has gone in behind the scenes to get these players to be where they are now so I just hope that the players go out and show a true account of themselves because on paper they shouldn't win but this is the FA Youth Cup the cliche is still of the same anything can happen on the day as we saw with Villa getting someone sent off early on it can open the game up so I'm going to be here I'm really looking forward to watching some of the under 18s who I haven't seen in action before and just seeing where they are at against a city team who clearly can buy in the best players even at that level they buy them in from all over the world and having already beaten the Cat1 team in Villa that can give them so much confidence and again the fact that they're at home as well yeah and that's why they'll have seen this pitch they might have trained on this pitch a couple of times I don't know if they've trained on it in advance of this evening's game to get themselves familiar with the surroundings of things they'll all of course have come and watched first team games here and probably thought one day it would be great to be out there I mean I'd go right back to when I was a very bad sort of non-league, lower league football I got to play on the pitch of my local like Ryman League team and that was absolutely amazing for me as a sort of 14 or 15 year old and these guys will know as well by the way that Eddie Howe will be here tonight watching Jason Tyndall will be here tonight watching they'll know as well it's an opportunity to the likes of Jake Scrimsroy has been talked about a lot it's a chance for him now because he might have trained in front of Eddie Howe too many times because they trained separately of course the under 18s away from the first team base here so yeah, I think it's a great opportunity on a number of levels for them and a few of the lads, Jake Scrimsroy being one and Brennan Camp as well they play out on loan against men's teams how much of an advantage will that give them I think it's an advantage it's a completely different football it really is when you know Jake's been at pool town obviously it's a completely different level of football in terms of not just at the level but also the whole sort of I guess ethos around it there's competitive points up for grabs for a start which often in under 21s and under 18 games you don't get that competitive edge you do when it's a cup competition but a lot of the sometimes friendlies and things there there's a lot of good football played it's almost sort of a bit nicely nicely at times but in an FA youth cup quarterfinal hopefully there'll be some tackles going in so they'll certainly have learnt a lot from playing in competitive non-league matches and hopefully that will stand them in good stead tonight when there is that just extra edge to the game that maybe there wouldn't be if it was just a friendly down the road against a local team and of course we're here tonight and it would be really good if there was a big crowd here to get behind the boys wouldn't it? Yeah as we say great that so many turned up at the weekend to watch it's a beautiful day I mean it'll get a bit chilly later on so bring your thermals as well but it would be really good to have the main stand packed for these guys to and you know I would be interested as well from a neutral part of you even if you're in the local area to come down and see what Man City are like under 18 level as well as supporting your own team just as a general football fan fascinating to see how good City are even at that level as well but fingers crossed that the cherry's boys can cause some sort of upset because there's no doubt they would be second favourites Absolutely well if you do want to come down tonight tickets are available on tickets.austb.co.uk and kick off is 7 o'clock Now next up for the first team is of course tomorrow's trips at Arsenal let's take a little look at what Eddie Howe had to say ahead of the game Yep the Callum and David are they are improving they're doing well we haven't seen them joining training yet so that would show you that they're probably a bit too far off for this game Junior will be out there's been moments in those games where we feel we've been maybe slightly under par but maybe slightly unfortunate not to get something from those games they are incredibly difficult I think you know when you go away from home you've got to get everything together within your game you've got to maximise every chance you get at the other end and we possibly haven't done that at times this season we try and impose ourselves in every game we try and we try and go into every match with a clear positive game plan to win the game we never go into a match not trying to show our quality we have to get more points otherwise we will get dragged into the bottom end of the table and if we do get more points then we have a chance of looking upwards Well that was Eddie Howe speaking in his pre-match press conference the full press conference is available for free Chris it's another really exciting game to look forward to you tomorrow night isn't it? It certainly is and I have the big six games before Christmas in that little run I would say Arsenal are the closest that Bournemouth got to obviously a couple of tonkings away from home but here you know Josh King scoring that goal on the stroke of half time to bring it back to 1-1 and then Bamiang making it 2-1 in the second half but some late pressure there was a David Brooks obviously a disallowed goal wrongly in the first half as well which could have made it a different afternoon Arsenal have had a good little run they've had a couple of results obviously recently at home in Beeson Barthay Borisoff in the Europa League and obviously Southampton at the weekend which seemed to be a very comfortable win Saints made a couple of mistakes in that game but yeah obviously Bournemouth be at Arsenal here last season so the Emirates is a tough place to go and win that is for sure not many teams outside the big six go there and win but Bournemouth have never done it so it would be a great time to suddenly tear that record book up but Arsenal do throw in a wobbly performance now and then you know there was all sorts of criticism for Unai Emery at the start of the season when things weren't quite panning out and it was a sort of be careful what you wish for scenario for all those that wanted Wenger out and all of a sudden weren't getting what they wanted from Unai Emery but they've got it together they're right in the chase for fourth place at the moment they're in the Europa League last 16 the only thing I will say is they've got Spurs coming up in the north London Derby they've got United coming up they've got the two Europa League legs as well that's the next four games not in that order necessarily so I'm just hoping that they've you know in terms of management of their squad they might have half an eye on a couple of those games rather than tomorrows and of course one thing to bear in mind is that they of course played on Sunday our game was Saturday so they've had one less day to rest yeah I think these days you know sort of Sunday to Wednesday probably not as much of an impact for Premier League players but I think it's useful when you've got a couple of knocks certainly for 24 hours extra to rest so from that point of view yes but it's nice for them they've had three home games at a row with Barté and then with Southampton and now with Bournemouth visiting as well it's a great game for fans to go to it's a fantastic ground to go and visit the Emirates you know it's a can be a strange atmosphere at times as well it can be a little bit of a library at least to call hybrid a library it can be a little bit of a you know the fans sometimes get on their back a little bit but you know look at their players I mean a Bamiang John Williams was absolutely purring about a Bamiang it's the first time he'd seen him I think or when they played here or certainly the first time they'd noticed him and lack of it I didn't play that game but his back now fit as well and has been scoring so yeah the attacking threats for the likes of Chris Meppham he's going to have it all on on his away full debut and those two a Bamiang and Lacazette they're the real threats aren't they of course there's players dotted all over that team that are very dangerous as well well you don't need to play someone like Urzill when Urzill can't get in for whatever the reasons are that have gone on behind the scenes you know that shows you what sort of depth and resources they've got you know Aaron Ramsey's off to coin it in at Juventus from next season so it'll be the last time we get to see him play against Bournemouth but you know Jakar in midfield he's just you know he's one of those who puts the tackles in very physical at the back arston as well that's the one thing I remember from the game here is that they were really pretty physical you know you think of Socrates and Lich Steiner and other players at the back who are really sort of getting to grips with the likes of Joshua King and Callimawl so obviously he won't play this game so someone like Selankey if he's fit to play this game and then he will you know he will certainly need to be at his physical best Joshua King as well but you know the Bournemouth's away form against the Big Six taking a couple of pastings on the road but that was in a different sort of spell when they were really sort of struggling to get any form going starting to feel a bit sorry for themselves the only statistic they need to correct of course is the away run nine defeats at all comps in a row away from home which however you spin it doesn't look very good but there have been a lot of Big Six teams in that run so I think this week is a case of get what you can against Arsenal and City and then you look at the last nine games of the season there's only Tottenham in there everybody else is pretty much bottom half so that's the I guess the way you can start to sort of get some wind in the sails towards the end of the season but anything in these next couple of games would be a nice bonus and in terms of our injuries unfortunately there's not too much change from Saturday is there? Not a whole lot, no Dominic Salancki I think just was feeling a little bit of fatigue at the end of Saturday of course he hasn't played many 90 minutes and he did a lot of work a lot of chasing as well and there was some talk that he just picked up a little bit of a minor knock in that game but I think he's going to be okay Steve Cook doesn't seem likely to be back who knows when at the moment no update on that with his groin problem he was on crutches at the ground on Saturday so that gives us a bit of an idea of the impact of his problem but the rest, Brooks, Wilson and obviously the others out for the season no one coming back Stanislaus is the only one who possibly could be back in and around it who would provide an option of course for Freddie going forward Well it's going to be a very exciting game tomorrow at the Emirates Stadium if you are going up have a very safe journey if not make sure you keep an eye across all of our social media channels and our website for the latest updates thanks for joining us