 Hello and welcome to another week of the AFCB TV preview show. We're here at a very misty vitality stadium, and I'm joined by Chris Temple to go through all of the week's action. Coming up on today's show, we'll be looking back at Monday's 2-1 win over Crystal Palace here at Vitality Stadium. We'll also be taking a look at what happened when we went out and about with Junior Stanislas. And finally, we'll be previewing this weekend's game against Watford at the Cridge Road. But there's only one place to start, and that's with last week's 2-1 win against Crystal Palace here at Vitality Stadium. Let's take a look at the short highlights. Now Van Ardholt, ghosting in left-hand side. Right but it's shot! That is some equaliser from Patrick Van Ardholt, who has lashed it into the same top corner that David Brooks found earlier on. And Palace have been threatening at the start of their second half, and they get the goal that their possession deserves. 55th minute, 1-1. Well, you have to say it seemed likely the way they were going when it was the pass through. Just repeated the beat of course, but he didn't have a lot of angle, decided to go with power, and smashes it in the top corner. Just a little suspicion on the upside. I think he was just the odd. The substitutes they brought on have got extra defensive artillery here. It's a penalty, is it? It is a penalty! It's Lerma who's gone down! Bourbon's got a penalty! Yellow card in there as well for Sacco, but the referee had just literally warned them. And Lerma has gone down, face down on the edge of the penalty area. And he has won the cherry's a spot kick. And Stanislaus has got the ball. Let's have a look at the replay here. Well, as it comes in, Lerma's got it. He's just got a clout, a flailing arm from Sacco. Can Stanislaus possibly win it? Right footed in the neck! Bourbon was against Crystal Palace. Bourbon 2, Crystal Palace won. Well, there we go. Goals from David Brooks and Junior Stanislaus saw the cherries pick up another three points. Chris, what a night it was under the lights. That's four Premier League wins now. Home form going really well, isn't it? It took some courage to come back in the second half because Palace came out firing in that second half. Got the goal at the good time, and that was offside. Got that goal and we're on top pretty much for the good 10 or 15 minutes afterwards. Bourbon with the world to hang on actually there at 1-1. I think that gave them the platform to push on. Changed the system obviously which really made a difference in the second half. Mangosling on just solidified things in midfield a bit and allowed just a regain a bit of a foothold in the game and then obviously right at the end, Junior popping up with the penalty. A couple of sort of standout performance. I thought Jefferson Lermer had his best game for Bourbon. Really mixed it. I know he got a scuffle at the end there which is probably, I guess what, but I think people were expected to see a bit sooner than they have. But I thought he was all over the pitch putting his foot in. He gave the ball away a couple of times but that's going to happen. But I thought just as a presence in the centre of midfield he was starting to show the sort of thing that I think Bourbon with fans expected they'd been signed for. Just a bit sort of combative and mixing it up a little bit and playing some nice balls as well. So I thought he was really good. David Brooks had a great first half. Faded a bit in the few minutes he had before half time and then before he got took off. And obviously the fallbacks for shutting down those wingers. You know, Wilfred Zahar and Andrews Townsend. What a threat they are. Simon Francis and Adam Smith, let's not forget out of position at left back. Defending on his wrong foot effectively. I thought they were both excellent. So all in all, great performance and those two points. The difference between a point and three and those sort of games. The table I think there's probably, you'd be tenth instead of seventh. So from that point of view, a huge Monday night that one. What is it about home form? There's one five here now this season. Are we beaten in six? I think it's been a real contributing factor to the general momentum because with Cup drawers Bourbon played six games at home and only three away so far this season. So a couple of those haven't gone that well. So the home form really has been an opportunity to build up that momentum as we said last week or the week before. They've scored two in every home game they've played at least, which is, you know, so the fans are coming expecting goals. Yeah, so I think playing regularly here, having those couple of home cup games as well just to keep the ball rolling in terms of home form and this place has already become a difficult place for opposition teams to come. So they've been entertaining games. We don't see them any boring games here and this season has certainly lived up to that sort of entertaining tag and as you say under the lights, it's become a synonymous with good Bourbon with performances down the years. For some reason I've done all it is about darkness or the extra special atmosphere or whatever it does, but it does seem to always provide some entertainment. And that win on Monday now up to seventh in the Premier League? Yeah, and this weekend, you know, sixth against seventh, someone in the press conference earlier mentioned the two teams pressing for a Champions League place, which of course is inevitably what people will start saying sort of lightheartedly, I guess. But I think it's good for the league to see Watford in sixth and Bourbon within seventh at the moment. You know, even Leicester and Wolves, you know, in the top edge echelons of the table as well, either side of Manchester United have had their struggles. So, you know, only a couple of points behind Chelsea and Tottenham and Arsenal and teams like that. I know it's only seven games, but they always say the table starts to even itself out as you get towards eight, nine, 10 games. So it's a great platform. And when you look at the points column, 13, that's a third of the way pretty much towards the Magic 40. And you know, only seven games of the season gone. So from that point of view, and I know that's what the message will be, is that they've ticked off a big chunk of the points they want to achieve. Get a few more of them in the bag while the fixtures are maybe on their side slightly and hopefully sort of then when December comes and there's some trickier looking fixtures on the horizon, there's already a good points all in the bag. And you mentioned Jefferson Lermer, there were a host of players that performed brilliantly on Monday and Nathan Ackay was another one. Nathan Ackay, I should have mentioned him in the first batch really. He got mad at the match. I've seen him this morning. He's got a broken nose actually from that chance where I think he headbutted the back of Jordan Ayew when winning ahead of us. So yeah, Nathan Ackay is sort of the pretty boy, if you like, of the team. He's got a bit of a big conch at the moment for sure, but he's going to get it reset, he was telling me. So yeah, but he had a great game physically. We know he's not the tallest, but he's got such a spring on him. He's so athletic. He reads the game so well. He's always seems to be half a yard ahead. And again, I'm repeating myself, but him and Steve Cook have really formed a great partnership and again speaking to both of those players individually over the last couple of weeks, they both talk about how much work they're doing as a pair. Eddie How has taken them off as a centre half, looking at clips of them, telling them as a pair what they should be doing. So they really have gelled together as the first choice pair. So in a way, it's a shame to signal where Nathan Ackay out above Steve Cook, because they both sort of dealt with that physical threat. But yeah, Nathan Ackay was once again superb. And I hope he gets a chance with Holland and the coming up international break. They're playing Germany and Belgium, I think, so two big games for them. And it'd be nice to see him get some minutes because the last time he went, he just sat on the bench because Holland had got a few defensive options at the moment. And another player that played on Monday night is Junior Stanislas. We seem to be talking about him every week now. And back on the scoresheet as well. Well, he keeps popping up with key contributions. That's why, again, you know, off the bench, and that was his first touch of the game to put the penalty in the back of the net. So again, it takes some strong will from him to say, I've only just come on, but I feel ready to take the penalty at a match-defining moment as well. It's a cool penalty down the middle as well. I'm not just taking it, but that little sort of dink down the middle. He didn't try and blast it. Again, if the goalkeeper stands up, which they never do, and just catch it, wouldn't he? But yeah, Junior, he didn't have to do a lot in that game because he only came on very late. What he did do was the key match-turning moment. So, again, we talk about choices on the wing. I see no reason to change the ones that have been starting, but it just gives any other option. Well, earlier this week, the AFC BTV cameras went out and about with Junior Stanislas, and he talked about set pieces. Three kicks in and around the box. I'll say I'll usually take. Obviously Diego's coming now. Diego's got a good left foot. At a time last year, me and Chelsea used to stand round it and given where the free kick was, maybe he might have taken it, I might have taken it, but always anywhere round the box I feel confident taking it. Well, there we go. That was Junior Stanislas talking about set pieces, and you can see the full out and about on AFC BTV for free. Now, Chris, free kicks. We've seen him scored one last year against West Brom, and it's great to have him on the pitch just to be able to do that, isn't it? Yeah, we've seen Rico have a couple of goes. He's obviously been struggling with a little bit of a hamstring injury, and maybe, you know, he might struggle to get back in this weekend with the way that Adam Smith played as well. So to have Junior on free kicks, I mean, there will be a day, one day, when Simon Francis scores. That will happen. I don't know when it is, whether it will be in this universe or the next. He had to go last week down the south end of the ground and it ended up nearer the corner flag than the goal. I'm not sure he got the best ball from the wee man from the free kick. So Simon Francis will keep popping up occasionally. He's a bit more, Junior's got the creative, as my colleague Willow on radio, would say, he's got the suave on the free kicks. Francis is a bit more, just hammer it basically. So I think one will burst the net, but I don't know when it's going to be. We've seen the wee man try and clip a couple. So there's a few people that tend to get themselves in and around. I'm sure Lewis Cook will always hovers around, hoping that when he's on the pitch, and he's another one we should have mentioned earlier on, by the way, who I thought was good on Monday night, having come in from the cold. But yeah, Junior with his free kicks, he will be to the front of the queue, I would imagine now. And we talked about the many players that can take free kicks. We've also seen four different players take penalties this year. Yeah, with varying degrees of success. Obviously, Callen Wilson took the first one and missed it. And then Joshua King scored a couple. Jordan Ibe scored one on the lead cup. Junior Stannis last to score one now as well. Some people will get a bit funny about, moving the penalty takers around the things. I mean, it doesn't really bother me, as long as it goes in the net, to be honest. It doesn't matter who's taking it. Of course, the situation has been that Joshua King wasn't on the pitch, for example, the other day. So he would have taken it if he'd been on the pitch. Who knows if it had been the same result? I'm not sure. I think Callen Wilson, unfortunately, in missing has ended up four or five people down the queue now. You don't get many second chances if you miss one. I think you tend to disappear from the radar for a bit. So I think Joshua King is very much still the taker. But if he's not on the pitch, then there's obviously two or three people who'd fancy themselves to step up. And of course, last year it was at Vicarage Road that Junior picked up his injury. It would almost be like a fairytale if he were to go back there and score this year. Exactly, exactly right. Yeah, it was that innocuous, wasn't it? Bone on bone injury. I remember it right on the halfway line down underneath us where he ended up hobbling off. But yeah, it was a great game there last year. Jermaine Defoe obviously got the last minute equaliser. Two teams that have been very hard to separate down the years. Lots of draws. Bournemouth have never beaten Watford in the Premier League, which is an amazing statistic really when you think of the two clubs being very closely matched. So yeah, Vicarage Road, not only is it always an easy place for people to go, and they've started the season really well. They've just sort of started to slip a little bit, but they've had some tough fixtures in the last three or four. So they'll see this as a chance to get back to winning ways, I'm sure. Well, last time out it was a TT draw at Vicarage Road. Let's take a look at the short highlights. Mill Mill, taken short for Rara, swung in by Holibast towards Prodol. Volleybyd Bermania and deflected past Begavitch. Stanislaws with a couple of stepovers. Drives it for goal. Good save. Loups to the back post and goes behind. Both teams claiming they want the decision. It is a penalty. I think it was Jordan Arame. The goalkeeper saved it with his left hand. It looked up into the sky and then Holibast. The back post has punched it away with his hand. So it is a clear handball. It's a great spot from the officials. It's King then for the Cherries to level up before half-time, which he does. Rolls it into the bottom left corner and Bournemouth to find themselves on terms. He plays it into the box, finds Hughes, holds it up. The shot's going with it. Daniels from the free kick. Locked it into the penalty. Acke helps it on down the centre and the Cherries are in here. And used anyone V Jermaine Defoe, John Williams. And of course, John is in the other spot. Jermaine Defoe pops up with the equaliser. Deep into added time. And once again, never right off this Eddie Howell team. Well, it was Joshua King with the penalty that day, as well as Jermaine Defoe with the last-minute equaliser. And Chris, it's not going to be another easy game on Saturday. What for the flying? Started very well. He has a very tough place to go traditionally. They didn't make many massive signings over the summer. They obviously made a load of money on Richard Ellison, selling him for 40 million to Everton. But in terms of the players they brought in, there was sort of a couple for two or three million. Gold, who's obviously gone straight into the team, who's a million, but very experienced, obviously former England keeper as well. So they've got largely the same nucleus of the team that Bournemouth will know from the last couple of years. The one player who's probably stood out this season, who hasn't necessarily caught the headlines before, is the Argentinian Roberto Pereira, who scored in that game obviously we just saw last season. Who's got a couple of goals this season. Troy Dini obviously always physically offers a threat. He's good at what he's good at. He's unfashionable probably. But certainly Steve Cook and Nathan Ackay will find themselves in a physical battle again. So yeah, and the likes of Will Hughes, he always seems to have a decent game against Bournemouth as well. But a lot of familiar names from the last couple of seasons. So not a much change squad. Obviously they changed the manager a million times in the last few years. But Javi Gressir certainly seems to have got them starting well. And on paper it's a very evenly matched game. Both teams have won four, they've drawn one and they've lost two. Yeah, and going back down the years, I think someone just mentioned in the press conference that Bournemouth wins in 28 for Bournemouth against Watford or one win in 14, they're not my stats. So if they're wrong, don't click this up for next week. But generally not a great record against Watford. They had a great win obviously at home over Spurs in the league. Again, their early fixtures were quite favourable. They did have Tottenham in there. So to beat them, they then went and lost to them in the league cup on pens obviously. But in the last three games they've had some tough games. So no real surprise that they've struggled to get results in those. But a bit like Bournemouth needing to take advantage against some of the teams that they'll be in and around at the end of the season. That's why I think Watford will see this as a good chance to get back to winning ways. So I wouldn't say to read too much. By all accounts they played pretty well in the couple of the games they lost to the big guns in recent weeks. So I don't think we should read too much into the fact there's been a couple of draws and losses rather than the double use this time. And a real boost for Eddie Howes that there's no fresh injury concerns going into the game. Charlie Daniels of course came back in the result under 21s in midweek. So that's really positive as well. I think he's probably too soon this weekend. But again with Adam Smith doing so well at left back. You'd be talking about Charlie Daniels having competition from Diego Rico. He probably wasn't expecting to have competition from Adam Smith for the left back role. But as well as Smith he did against Paulus you know he would be I would imagine first choice again there this time round. But yeah so with Charlie back and Junior Stanislaus back and Dan Gosling now back as well. There's only one or two others carrying minor knocks so he's got a lot of options all of a sudden now. And there's very few injuries in the squad as you say. Some choices to be made albeit there probably aren't difficult choices because the team's playing well so the team is largely picking itself at the moment. The one I'd be interested to see is midfield wise whether he opts to change anything there. The Lermer and Lewis Cook partnership that we thought would start the season eventually got its chance against Paulus was very good. The We-Man obviously has played every game international break coming up where he'll probably feature for Scotland. So I just wonder if the wing position he might freshen something up but again there's no reason to. And you did mention that international break that how important is it to get a good result going into it without a game for two weeks? Yeah always. And when the first game back is Southampton here so that's a tasty game you want to go into that with a bit of confidence as well I'm sure which the way the two teams are playing at the moment I know Saints had a good lead cut win in midweek but in terms of the Premier League they just haven't got going at all yet. So yeah to get something from Watford a point would be a good result there for sure to have something to take into that international break. The last thing you want to be doing is stirring on a bad performance or something that's gone wrong for two weeks. Particularly as a lot of the players now stay here as well there's only a handful of international to go away five or six who probably end up going. Azmi Begiric obviously has been called up again as we record this Nathan Ackay is waiting to hear if he's in the Holland squad I'm sure he will be. But yeah so for the players that are hanging around here you don't want to be hanging around in the doldrums for a couple of weeks. Well that's all we've got time for today if you are going to Watford please be aware of delays on the train but otherwise do have a safe journey. We'll see you next time as we preview the game against Southampton.