 Hello and welcome to this week's preview show where BBC radio show that's Chris Temple is virtually alongside me as we look ahead to a big week for the cherry. Here's what's coming up. We'll look back at that brilliant 4-1 win against Leicester on the weekend. We'll also be joined by Lloyd Kelly on the preview show. And finally we will turn our attention to Wednesday night and that game at the Etihad Stadium. Well we're going to start back at Sunday night and that superb win by Turkey Stadium. Chris given the other results that came in over the weekend that was an absolute must win wasn't it? Total must win and at halftime I think I put on Twitter after the game or said on the radio. If anyone at halftime saw that come in they're lying because halftime I'm afraid it was googly rather room and you know we still might need the route to rather room for next season but it was looking bad. One shot you know a terrible terrible goal to give away defensively after such a solid performance in the previous game and obviously Nathan Akelympia as well. It was a pretty poor first half all round but the tactical reshuffle the belief that they suddenly found from somewhere in the corner of the dressing room that had been gathering some dust for the last few months and it all came out and all went right. Of course that bit of fortune with the the the backside of Wilfred Ndidi and Cashpress Michael. I'm not still not sure what he was doing trying to make that clearance but yeah all of the pieces suddenly fell into into place in the in the jigsaw box and that the result was that I mean you'd have taken a scrappy 1-0 off someone's backside but as long as it was three points and it turned out that actually the way they won in the end I think just gives great forward momentum going into the city game which we'll talk about a bit later in terms of now that the pressure's not off in the city game because they're still very much at a relegation fire but it does mean they don't need to go to city and absolutely have to win like they did on Sunday. It was a crazy second half wasn't it you know from 60 minutes that was still very hard to sort of see a result coming and then it was a crazy I think it was 101 seconds penalty two goals and and a red card as well it all went off didn't it. Should have been another red card as well if you asked me I think Ndidi should have been sent off because under the new law guidelines this year if you're the last man it's a professional foul but you don't make an attempt to win the ball inside the penalty area and then you you could get a red card and there's no way Ndidi's tried to play the ball I think the ref's almost feeling sorry for him I don't know what's going on there but he should have been sent off so aren't you you know you can't really kick out not too much argument with that but again you've seen those ones just sort of brushed off as you know a bit of a to-do afterwards so he could easily have escaped with that as well so I suppose one red card out of two but yeah all in all I mean lester unraveled I'm not sure what happened to them in the second half but Dom Selanke all of a sudden you know the second goal was a brilliant footwork by the way I mean it'll get overlooked because it was late in the game and the game was already won probably but you know a great little dance away from his man a little finish with the outside of his foot underneath cashpish Michael as well it was a fantastic finish and the sort of finish of a guy who's full of confidence so you know it's so good for him to have got those goals and I feel slightly sorry for him that his first one of course his goal earlier in the season against lutan of course his first one got disallowed before he then went on to score later in the game this one of course there was a red card and the skirmish immediately after the ball hit the net so one day he'll score a goal that isn't followed by some sort of incidents but brilliant for him with Joshua King's fitness obviously a question mark it's going to be great now and I don't see really how you can probably drop Dom Selanke after that going to going to City on Wednesday night but all in all you know defensively I mean the new defensive shape with a back three of Rico and the left of the back three I can't remember ever seeing Rico playing the back three in his Bournemouth career he might have done for a few minutes people will correct me if I'm wrong but I don't recall it Lloyd Kelly's only played three games there all of a sudden he's the you know he's the central central linchpin up against Jamie Vardy Steve Cook was sort of half fit three quarters fit came on and got through over half a game without really noticing it and defended really well so that's encouraging that's got half in his legs after that serious hamstring injury and just a bit of a niggle so and then Jack Stacey I want to mention him as well because on the left of sort of midfield slash wing back I thought he was absolutely outstanding the second half you know didn't actually see a lot of the ball you know per se but did so much running I couldn't believe how much up and down he was helping out in defense chasing across he was at centre forward at one point he was absolutely everywhere and that's exactly the sort of commitment and and energy and passion that Eddie Howell need and he'll play again because Adam Smith's not going to be available for this game either so and he fully deserves to after that some really important halftime changes there as as you say you know the formation switch to three at the back with the wing backs and Junior Stanislas coming up coming on as well he more than paid his part didn't he yeah I didn't want to mention everyone now I wanted to give you a chance to actually speak in this preview show rather than it just be a one-man band but yeah Junior sorry you're just tearing up with your questions in a threadable way sorry about that um yeah Junior Stanislas again great you know brilliant that he's able to make a contribution as Jamie wasn't sort of fully fit to be at a start and I think he was very carefully managed really because um albeit it was a must-win game and you think well do you want to play your best team from the start um and if you can get an hour out of him then brilliant I thought David Brooks you know second half again was much better and again really interesting to see him in that central role we've spoken about it spoken about it before sort of dropping into that number 10 he was much much more able to affect the game there than being out one on the right so Boots did to see where he plays against his old club um and he got through 80 minutes which is comfortably his longest contribution of this restart as well so but yeah Stanislas great you know cool head with the penalty I actually never thought he was going to miss I know Schmeichel's a very renowned penalty saver in Junior admitted after the game did a bit of mind games that Schmeichel had told him he was going to go down the middle as he was preparing for that spot kick with Junior stuck to his guns and Casper double bluff didn't work on this occasion um and then you know he definitely doesn't get the Johnny Evans own goal but again a great little turn and a significant deflection to make it three at an important time of the game so he's been a real factor played well at Manchester United which I hope will stand him in good stead to go to Manchester City and play well as well. Probably the only negative to come from the evening you mentioned it earlier Nathan Ake hobbling off after 42 minutes it was a shame shame that that happened but such a crucial block from him to prevent what looked like a certain goal from Vardy. We could be sat here in two weeks talking about that block keeping Bournemouth in the Premier League because if that goes 2-0 at that moment I don't think there's any way back and I think that's Bournemouth relegated as simple as that I think it's that important a block um what the future holds for Nathan I mean Eddie how I said in his press conference ahead of this game it's a minor groin injury minor groin injury you know that that probably is three or four games um so I would be doubting whether we'll see him again this season and that probably means doubting that we'll see him again in a Bournemouth shirt which would be such a shame of course nothing's done and dusted there's a very short turnaround this summer um you know he won't move for the sake of it just because he wants to leave Bournemouth because I think he's a gathering you know he's very happy on the south coast and he loves the life down here um but you know of course if if City come knocking um then it's probably quite a good game to not have to go and advertise his skills in this one actually but he's um he's gonna be in demand so fitting if it is to be his last touch in a Bournemouth shirt whatever happens in terms of relegation or not this season that it was a goal saving block twice this season he's injured himself blocking goals he did it against Liverpool he did his hamstring earlier in the season and now he's done it against uh against Leicester as well but brilliant contribution fantastic player lots of people say the best ever player to play in a Bournemouth shirt get it's hard to compare obviously relatively to those going back into the Ted McDougal era and earlier still but um certainly the best defender ever to play Bournemouth and I say that with John Williams uh he won't be watching this because he can't turn the internet on but he's bigger than me and uh just finally we were sat here last week saying four points from these two games it's a a huge week you know Spurs and Leicester to come they've got their four points and they've got them their confidence back up and they're in a much better position now aren't they yeah and how i see the bottom of the table is that it's this city game is a free throw for me because i think everyone have drawn a line the city game almost might as well not be happening in the in the relegation fight save for the goal difference and anyhow i've mentioned that as well this morning that um it's going to be tough to get a result there's no one's doubting that that's not to say we negatively thrown the talent already and say Bournemouth can't get anything because Southampton you know had four shots to manage the city's 26 and beat them one nil the other day at St Mary's so you can if you defend right you can keep them out it's possible and city you know they've got an FA Cup semi-final coming up next weekend they might might rest a few as i said to willow earlier in the week they might leave a few of the 80 million power men and only bring in 50 million power men instead so yeah they might change a few obviously they've had the the champions league decision this week as well which might have had a big off the field impact for them um they're guaranteed to finish second so nothing to play for in terms of you know premier league position or status if you like um so it'd be interesting to see what team they go with this weekend there may be a little bit more about that later but i just see Watford as the key now down the bottom um because they play city don't forget in their penultimate game and then go to Arsenal in the last game west town Watford on Friday night whatever happens in this city game on Wednesday west town against Watford is Friday night i think west town from a Bournemouth pot of view if they win that game that's a good result because Watford are the most catchable both in goal difference and the fixtures that Watford have got left i think we reflected on this in the the last preview show i think it's even more um in evidence now and actually you look at it Bournemouth might only and i might look stupid to say this in a couple of weeks but there's a possibility Bournemouth might not even have to win their last two games it could still stay up because if they could take four points um and and Watford managed to not beat city or Arsenal lose both of those games that could be enough so it there might not even be a must-win pressure on the on the Southampton game depending on how west town Watford goes if Watford win that game on Friday night at the London stadium then the whole circle changes again if you like because west town are so far ahead on goal difference that they're effectively a point further ahead but it's all very complicated um but the key thing is Bournemouth are still in it still in it and one man who is in form is Dominic Solanke he was speaking to AFCB TV after that win against Leicester it's the 67th minute we've finally got ourselves back in the game it's one all and then tell me what happened um yeah i think after that we just um had a flood of confidence really um we went through we knew that we had to to go all out and um they managed to to keep going till the end and managed to get four and so when the ball breaks you in the box it's not an easy chance the angle's probably against you what's running through your mind what are you planning to do and what what did you manage to do um i was just assessing the situation really i think um was probably helped me with his run um took the centre back away and it freed up the space for me and i managed to get get a clean shot off and yeah managed to trickle over the line people always talk about you know you'd happily see it go enough your backside in that case it trickled over the line what what that must have felt like a long time yeah i think sometimes i've been a bit unlucky at times and when it was just going over the line i was thinking is someone going to clear it or or whatever but managed to go in and um yeah after that we managed to get a few more well that was the goal square from sunday evening done it to lanky giving his thoughts now then as you can see we have been joined on the preview show by Lloyd Kelly Lloyd thank you for joining us we've just been talking about that left the game but how was it from your perspective it was a much needed and brilliant win yeah um as you said it was a it was a brilliant win for the boys um it puts it's in a much better position going into the last three games um obviously it was a difficult first half um been put up under a lot of pressure um and then obviously making the the tactical change and the formation change at halftime really helped us um and the belief from the boys just kind of going out then just leaving everything on the pitch um really made a a big statement for us in that second half um so yeah everyone's everyone's buzzing everyone's got a good feel um but um you just got to kind of take it into the next game of course it's going to be a tough one but um we'll do everything we can to kind of pick up as many points as we can well you talked about those halftime changes substitutions coming on and obviously that formation change that seemed to almost work straight away didn't it yeah definitely um that formation um caused us a lot of problems in the first half um and when we made the changes um for the second half um it kind of put us in a more comfortable position and um kind of enabled us to kind of get a get a bit more possession and um be on the front foot a lot more and lock on to um many of their players which caused them problems um so it kind of reversed the whole um flow of the game really so it did really work in our favour and that kind of fight that comeback in the second half those 101 seconds I think it was you know that's the determination and spirit that's going to be needed for the next three games isn't it yeah 100 um right all of the boys want to go out there and work hard and we're going to leave everything on the pitch till the last ball's kicked um so that's that's all we can do really it's just there's three games to go just got to do everything we can to kind of pick up as many points and and see where that takes us we only can control what we can control really order everything else just going on we don't we can't really focus on that and just make sure we focus on what we have to do and just on a personal perspective for you you've you know we've seen you playing at left back against Newcastle you've come against Manchester United and and Leicester and you played centre back what's that been like for you playing playing a couple of positions you seem to have got in seen us in there yeah um well throughout my career um i've been able to um play various positions obviously playing the left side centre half roll um whether that's a bat four or a bat five playing the middle middle man at a bat three um and obviously of course left back um is enabled me to kind of um pick up various things playing in those different positions so if needed to switching into either left back into centre half roll i can comfortably comfortably do it um so yeah it's been good that i've been getting a getting a experience in the Premier League playing those two positions but um yeah i'm just looking forward to the last three games really and just physically for you how are you feeling obviously having such a a long time out with injury and now coming back and the games are coming in such quick succession how are you finding it and how are you hoping yeah as you said the games are coming around really quick um you're getting two days to recover three days to recover until the next one um but i think i've been coping with it quite well um going off my first 90 minutes um of course you're going to be a lot more fatigued a lot more sore the following day um but as the games have gone on and the more 90 minutes i've played i've been adapted into it well um i'm recovering a lot quicker so um yeah i mean i'm in a good place at the moment and um hoping i can continue it for the like for another remainder of the season and just finally it's a a big game against Manchester City on Wednesday evening it's going to be a really tough game what's the mood in the camp ahead of that one yeah as you said it's going to be a really tough game for everyone um we know what they can do um you know what threats they are the way they play um but overall the mood in the camps uh on a high at the moment um and all you can do is kind of take it into that game and you can see where that takes us um obviously it'd be nice to kind of pick up as many points as you can but of course the position they're in and um the way they've kind of been playing recently it's been it's been the man's city that everyone knows um so of course it's going to be a tough one but we'll do everything we can to kind of pick up as many points as we can well i'm sure i speak on behalf of all the fans and wishing you and the boys the best of luck for that one and thank you very much for joining us and for your time this week thank you that game with Manchester City is where our attention is going to turn to next and Eddie Howe has been previewing that in his pre-match press conference winning breeds so many good and positive outcomes from it that um it was what we absolutely needed um and you can see a lift in the players a bounce in their step um renewed confidence renewed belief um so we're now going to three games left and we go in with a very into the the three games with a very positive mindset Josh King we'll see how he is um whether he makes the game we've got Nathan okay who will be out Chris Meppen will be out Simon Francis will be out Adam Smith won't make the game yeah unique challenge i think Manchester City um very uh different game really from any other that you face in the Premier League i think they've got unique qualities an outstanding coach a brilliant team so um we're going to have to be elevated to levels um maybe that we haven't given this season to to get a result Dom's a very it's a very level level um level lad in terms of his behaviour and and how he conducts himself i'm delighted for him just on a personal note that he's got that out the way and he scored scored some very important goals for us now hopefully that's the start of of many more to come and i think his teammates are delighted for him as well i think they shared in that moment with him well that was Eddie how speaking in his pre-match press conference Chris there's a there's no doubt about it that this is going to be one of the biggest tests of the season isn't it i think that's uh one of your biggest understatements of the season Zoe let me just really read off Manchester City's last few results 5-0 against Brighton 5-0 against Newcastle obviously 1-0 against Southampton 4-0 at home to Liverpool i mean even the last home results Newcastle 5-0 Liverpool 4-0 Burnley 5-0 Arsenal 3-0 that's the last four home games so no one's even managed to score there let alone i mean even the champions got done 4-0 there the best team in in europe and possibly in the world this season so yeah it's it's an almighty ask and that's why i mentioned earlier on about the goal difference being a factor not because we're being negative or unrealistic but because you look at teams that have gone there and got put to the sword and Bournemouth have in the last two or three meetings in Manchester City got a bit closer and have been in the game for a long time the home game actually earlier in the season was it was nearly fully a year ago now because it was right back at the start of the season Harry Wilson scored just before halftime which brought it back to 2-1 um after a city had been pretty dominant in the first half but Bournemouth tend to have sort of 25 30 percent of the ball against Manchester City it is going to be you're going to need the luck you're going to need everybody throwing in themselves in front of the ball defensive structure you know it's pretty good against against spurs and that's going to need to be very similar um Leicester obviously only played Jamie Vardy up but um yeah it's you need everything to go your way you need Aaron Rams to have a save and everything uh and then you know who knows you can potentially need one on the break stranger things have happened i just hope that there's maybe some distractions for city i'm clutching at straws but you're hoping that the semi-final or the champions league or whatever might possibly distract them but there's no doubt it's an almighty ask but thank goodness for the Leicester result meaning that you know defeat at the Etihad would definitely send Bournemouth down and now there's that fighting chance he'd talk about you know that's what they've got the likes of sterling they've got the boy and they've got those pairs scattered throughout their team that that are threats is there any chance that we could see any of them rotated i know he didn't play he didn't start to going on on the weekend is there any chance he could do the same against Bournemouth hopefully hopefully they all get rotated and they play the reserves yeah i mean just looking at that game as you say the other day mares sterling and jesus for the front three de Bruyne did start but came off rodry you know david silver just defensively i think just looking at some of the city's uh city's sort of press and listening to a couple of podcasts on on Manchester City defensively is there is there question marks if you can keep them out um you know you might have an opportunity they're playing the relatively inexperienced eric garcia at centre half obviously alongside la port the fallback positions mendiz a character kyle walker's not getting any any younger but you know that i think that is the even though i heard someone starting to question edison the other day which is seems to be you know clutching its jaws for me with again with them you know a fantastic goalkeeper that even a one percent drop in your standard suddenly your people are sort of starting to question you so that's the only area of the city team that you'd say is maybe not as well classed as their attacking elements so depending on who they rotate you know even if they rotate up front there um the bench the other night was you know pretty inexperienced i mean obviously you know phil foden david silver came off the bench as well but there's some other young names on there that aren't that familiar so and that was in the the bright and away game so again hopeful with a bit of rotation if the brawler doesn't fancy it perfect you know have a night off kevin raheem if you've got something better to do no problem go and do it Wednesday night we would be delighted and uh i want to talk about that south hampton game as well i know obviously south hampton were at home when they played Manchester City but can eddie howan and baughan were looking at that thinking you know if if south hampton can get something then there's no reason why perhaps we can't as well yeah why not i mean saints have followed up with a great obviously last each draw away at Manchester united on on monday night as well so they're gonna you know look at them come into the vitality at the weekend they're playing well um playing well mainly away from home that city result actually was a bit of a freak in terms of their home performances this season which haven't been great so yeah that'll be a great encounter albeit with no fans at the vitality on sunday but yeah i mean that was a classic case of you just just got to get everything right defensively have a little bit of luck saints defended really well you know Ralph Harzlutl got the structure spot on you could see they were all absolutely launching themselves for everything and then you know that's got to be controlled as well you can't just be flinging yourself around but you do need to be blocking absolutely everything it was one way traffic for you know the last 15 minutes of the game probably city had shot after shot but none would go in and that's just you know if you're going to beat city you do need to turn in a performance like that nobody rolls city over certainly not outside of the the top three or four anyway so yeah i think they will they will take some belief from that saints performance that it can be done if you get everything absolutely defensively spot on and in terms of our injury news you know no adam smith eddie house already said that joshua king will wait and see nathan ake he said he's gonna miss the game but again with dominix lanky playing well up front steve cook coming in on a on sunday there's there's still options for eddie house yeah so i would you'd expect them to go back to the sort of four that started in terms of the formation anyway with rico at left back and stacy at right back and it will have to be kelly and steve cook at the heart of the defense which will be another new defensive partnership i mean i've lost track of how many central defensive or or back four partnerships there have been this season because when you put in the fact that you know francis and meppum and jack simpson obviously has played as well and cook and ake and kelly so now cook and kelly from the start will be another new combination because nathan ake obviously hardly ever misses a game so yeah i think it's really useful for steve cook that he got those 45 minutes in his legs just his legs just to ease himself back in the other day he'll certainly be be tested against city that's for sure um concentrations are a big issue for the cherries to be wary of um i think juniors danis that's will come back in because again he played so well away at united came on and made that contribution the other day dan gosley i didn't have a great day the other day in the first half then june were the same so um you know lewis cook came on he'll have staked a claim for for a place as well so a couple of interesting chunks of choices in midfield um if joshua king's fit i mean he's a great outlet joshua king away from home because he can keep the ball he can stretch the defense as well um but where do you fit him in because calum will play dom salanki doesn't really deserve to get dropped after those couple of goals but anyhow as well as being loyal he also is a horses for courses man and will play teams to play a team depending on the the specific strengths of an opposition so be interested to see what he does there but yeah i think back four picks itself stanis that's in salanki it'll be tough to drop well we'll certainly wait and see you can listen to free live commentary of that game at Manchester City on air tv with chris and willow and we'll have all the post match reactions on our website for you too that's all we've got time for today join us on the weekend as we look ahead to that game against Southampton bye for now