 Hello and welcome to another AFC VTV preview show. I'm joined by matchday commentator Chris Temple and we'll be going back over a busy few days in the Cherries camp. Here's what's coming up. We'll be looking back at that valiant 3-1 defeat at Manchester City. And finally we'll be looking ahead to tomorrow's game against Huddlesfield here at Vitality Stadium. But first, let's go back to Saturday and that 3-1 defeat at the Etihad Stadium. Here are the short highlights. Bernadinho captaining Manchester City today at that ball down the left-hand side and Sarnay snuck in again here. Begavits comes out, good goalkeeping, Bernardo Silva out to the city ahead and the Cherries hold up, only 15 minutes I'm afraid. A straight ball over the left-hand side, Begavits initially did well. He was helpless though when Bernardo Silva smashed it back towards goal. It's Manchester City 1 for the first. Well, you needed a bit of luck there with the bounce when it come off the cupid McNivison to stop the first one. But as he's carried it, he's just carried it into his feet and he's smashed it home when Arnav Silva. Get over to the right-hand side. Francis swings one in with his left foot. Callan Wilson with the hang-up! And Callan Wilson finds the equaliser for the Cherries! Just as they did against Arsenal last weekend, they pull back one of the big guns on the stroke of half-time. Callan Wilson's seventh Premier League goal of the season and the Yeti had his stunned into silence, one-one! Well, it was a great build-up. Series of passes across the penalty area, then back again. I think it was Fran, I was left foot that curled it in and just missed everybody out, except Callan, who got a full head on it. I think the keeper got a touch but there was too much power in the header. It's the second half and he's sterling again. He's got support from Danilo on the outside. Danilo's no shot, beaten by Begavits! He sets a new Premier League record, an element of fortune, but the Cherries once more fall to the skill of sterling, 2-1 City. Well, we had a good counter to the previous one and that one did move around a bit, took a couple of ricochets before stealing. He seems to like playing against us so much. Played down the left-hand side, nice link-up, Sane drives it across and it is 3-1 and that probably is the game over. And it's Ilkai Gundawan who scores Manchester City's third there as the Cherries fell to clear the corner convincingly and the Etihad rises as City head for the eighth home win of the season out of eight. Well, we've tried the best we can to stem the tide, but City just kept coming and coming and coming and we've got to 80 minutes. We've been in the game at 2-1 for most of the game but 3-1 will be a tall order now to get back in 10 minutes. Well, there we go, a goal from Callum Wilson, wasn't enough on the day for the Cherries. Extended highlights are available for free on AFCB TV. Chris, it was a tough game as expected, but 3-1 is nothing to be ashamed of, is it? It's not. You know, you look at, again, some big decisions that could have gone against Bournemouth, could have gone with Bournemouth, I should say, which could have changed the game, but ultimately it was a bit like the United and Arsenal games in that there were excellent parts of the performance. You know, the game was alive till what was it, the 79th minute when City scored their third. Yes, Bournemouth, you know, they didn't actually have many shots, but they had some good moments, certainly gave City one or two things to think about and deserve their equaliser on the stroke of half-time, for sure, and exactly the same way it panned out against Arsenal, of course, when they went behind, pegged them back literally on half-time. You were hoping they would come out in the second half and start with a bit between the teeth, and they did actually. They came out and had a, you know, Joshua King floating one over the bat that Charlie Daniels couldn't quite get on the end of early in the half, but of course then City, you know, wasn't very happy. He was hopping around, by the way, in the technical area in the early stage of that second half, but then City just got their got their foothold back in the game. The quality they had, Leroy Sarnay was, you know, played out of his skin. He was absolutely fantastic. Simon Farage, I'm really sorry for him. He did so much running up and down, you know, trying to keep trying to keep track of him. Charlie's went with three at the back, which, you know, was Eddie's way of trying to contain them. It worked to a certain extent. I think they'll be pretty happy with how the game plan was sort of panned out because, as me had a couple of saves to make, City had a lot of the ball, as we said they would do. But ultimately, yeah, again, it was relatively small margins. There was more between the sides than there was in the Man United and Arsenal games, but then City are top of the league and have been flying their eight out of eight at home. So all of those things were to be expected, but all in all, I think if they were going to lose the game, they certainly came out with a lot of credit. And that was the, we bumped into some fans on the M6 on the way home at service stations and that was the general feeling was, you know, pride and credit in defeat really. And one positive is another goal for Callum Wilson as well. Yeah, good to see him back scoring. Had a couple of games with that, a goal, of course, but had a great header, by the way, as well, a really, you know, nice little dinking from Frano and Callum Wilson had to generate a lot of the power himself on that header. So to be able to do so, it was a really good header. There were lots of defenders around as well. So, yeah, great for him scoring different types of goals as well. Good for him to be, you know, still catching the eye after his England exploits. I just saw him this morning, actually, and asked him if he'd ever been to Kosovo, who England, of course, he got in their group and he hasn't. So, he might be hoping to be in that squad by the time that comes around in a year's time. But, yeah, all in all, good to have Callum back on the goal trail. Joshua King, you know, caused them one or two problems again. David Brooks, of course, was left out, which is an interesting selection choice with what's coming up this week. But, yeah, all in all, you know, good for Callum certainly to be back on the goal trail. And, you know, he's right up there in the table of goal scorers at the moment. And, of course, he could have had another one. I think Joshua King put a lovely ball into the box for him and he couldn't quite connect with it, could he? Yeah, that's the thing. He had a couple of half chances where actually, if you were being ruthless, you would say someone in the form he's been in, in an England shirt, you know, an England international, probably should be taking one of those. There was a particularly good one close in at the near post where he just miss-kicked it and he got in front of his defender. So, yeah, you're right to say that I think he could have had at least one more. He probably, you know, he probably would be thinking he could have had a hat-trick if one of those chances had come off cleanly. But he got one. I think he probably was kicking himself that he didn't have more. And it's worth mentioning Tyrone Minx as well. He put in an excellent format, didn't he? Yeah, absolutely. Myself and Willow both agree. We thought he was the best Bournemouth player, to be honest with you. And for a guy who's not been, not even in the team, but it hasn't been in the 18 for a lot of the games in recent weeks as well. Having come back sort of playing under 21s here and there to get some minutes. But he stepped in really well on the left of the back three. I think it's a position that suits him pretty well. He's got his height, obviously. He's very quick. He dealt with the threat that was coming at him. He couldn't be blamed if it was a big game to come into it. He was caught a bit short of sharpness. But to his credit, he was absolutely ready to go. Big call by Eddie to throw him in. You know, from the cold, really. But he fitted the way that Bournemouth wanted to play system-wise with the personnel they had available. So the question is now, he tends to play in a back three. That opens up that third sort of central defensive position for him. Will he dislodge Steve Cook or Nathan Ake in a four as a centre half? I'm not sure he will at the moment. So for tomorrow night, he'll be interested to see how Eddie goes if he, you know, Huddersfield do play a three at the back. So if Eddie opted to go three at the back, then you can see Tyrone staying in. It would be a bit harsh for me if he wasn't in the team tomorrow night. But I think whichever shape Eddie goes with will define whether Tyrone's in the team or not. And of course, we did have that change of formation. How did you feel it went on the weekend? I mean, it looked all right. Yeah, it looked okay. I mean, there was a lot of work. Charlie Daniels and Simon Francis on the on the outer edges of that sort of midfield four, if you like, or I reluctant to call them wing backs because they were doing more back than wing. Let's put it that way. But they had they had it all on with with Sarnay and with Stirling. Fundamentally, the formation, yeah, you can say it worked out okay, but they lost the game. There was a lot of space. Gundewa had a great game in midfield. Bernardo Silva for them was finding a lot of space. And again, we talk about people coming in and having to sort of get up to speed. Andrew Sermon's hardly hardly featured much recently and he all of a sudden found himself starting because Dan Gosling, as we thought he might do, didn't make it. So yeah, Lewis Cook and Sermon had a tough day in central midfield for sure. Jefferson's back tomorrow night, of course. It seems unlikely that Dan Gosling will be fit. So one of Lewis Cook or Sermon will have another chance. And it seems this season against the big teams we saw against Arsenal, now Manchester City, the gap isn't quite as big as it has been previous years, has it? That was the closest Bournemouth have come to city, definitely. I think, you know, that we talked about the previous results up there that have been a couple of horror shows, a 5-1 and a couple of four-nils. This was the closest. But again, like last season, City actually scored their third goal in exactly the same minute, 79 as they did last season when so the game was alive for a long time. But yeah, I think in the past it has been a bit of a possibly slightly damaged limitation if you like and, you know, trying to come away without getting an absolute walloping, whereas this time it was, you know, they stretched them. And we've got to mention the Tyrone Ming's penalty shout, by the way, at 2-1. I have to say at the time, they were head-on to us basically, so they were facing us. So we didn't quite get as good a view of it as the TV cameras later show. So we didn't realise quite how good a penalty shout that was. But, I mean, that has to be a penalty. I feel like I'm getting referees at the minute. I've said this before, I wasn't very complimentary of Craig Paulson last week in the Arsenal and the referee, Stuart Atwell, could not have been in a better position. Anywhere else in the pitch, that's a free kick. I would love to speak to Stuart Atwell and say, you've seen it, tell us why you haven't given it. Two hands in the back, a clear push. Didn't realise it at the time, but absolutely that should be a penalty. And if it goes in, then it's a completely different game. 2-2 and everything can happen. 2-2 at that point, and you know, Terry's buoyed by that. City fans, as they saw when born with, you know, peaked them back to 1-1, City fans were, it's almost like they were offended by Ireland, the City went off the boil for a few minutes. So if Bournemouth get back to 2-2 at that stage, yeah, things could be massively different, a bit like David Brooks' goal here against Arsenal, if that's allowed, it could be a different game. So ifs and buts and maybes, but I think that was a, so in the last two games Bournemouth have had two big decisions that, you know, I would say potentially have cost them. Well, next up for the Cherries, it's tomorrow's game against Huddersfield here at Vitality Stadium. It was quite an afternoon last year, so let's take a look at the game. So the referee, Probert, has waved Haddish and I down the field of course, he can't come back on, he's had treatment, so there's only ten Huddersfield players on the field to defend this corner, which is going to be taken by Jordan Ive. And it comes, the heads go up, and it's Callum Wilson on target in the Premier League for the first time since January! The excitement about Callum Wilson's return, quite right. He's back on the score sheet and Bournemouth despite being second best in the first 26 minutes, leading against Huddersfield. Lots of runs made to confuse the lines, but they were completely bewildered! Wilson stolen, fired into the bottom right corner and the Cherries were in four minutes of search too clear. The Cherries sweeping forward here, Daniels down the left side of the penalty area, Callum Wilson deep into the box, running onto its sermon, tipped over the crossbar. Thirty seconds left, or Francis has gone into the challenge here. The Cherries captain has gone, sent off, two yellow cards. Referee has been alerted by the fourth official there, because it was at Referee Proba and initially said, played on, purely to be careful, artists pinched it back! Well, what an afternoon that was, a hat trick from Callum Wilson on the day. Chris, they can take plenty of confidence from that one, can't they? Yeah, it did well because I think ultimately it was a score line that flattered them on the day, because they had Simon Francis sent off relatively early on in the second half, or on the stroke of half time, played a lot of the game with ten men, but still came out four-nil winners. I think Huddersfield would say they were still adapting to the league at that point, and the Premier League was still a bit of a shock to them. But of course the reverse fixture later in the season, Bournemouth went to Huddersfield and got whacked. Four-one just a horrible horrible day, it was probably the worst performance of last season I think. So yeah, two polar opposite games last season. Huddersfield, you know, this season they've been a bit sticky to start with, they won a couple, then they obviously had a man sent off on Saturday and lost at home to Brighton, so sort of checked a bit of their momentum, but they had had a couple of wins. They've only won two games all season in all competition, so to sort of started to get up and running, and then to have a man sent off. I would say it was a bit of a harsh red card as well. It was a little bit high, but I know David Wagner, the manager, wasn't very happy about it. So for Steve Munier, who, which will rule him out tomorrow night, and he's a big physical presence, so they have got a similar player in Du Poitre who could come in, so from that point of view it might not have been convenient to them too much, but in terms of them, they're having the sort of sticky second season, if you like, finished exactly the same as Bournemouth in their first season, 16th in the table, albeit Bournemouth had eight more points, actually, interestingly, but yeah, just at the moment they're having to find some answers because people have found them out a little bit. Brilliant achievement for them to stay up in the first place. You know, that's all you need in the first season is to stay in the league, but at the moment they haven't had the first few months of the season that they would like, and that's a great win, so they'll be coming here on the road, certainly with a bit of confidence. And one thing to bear in mind as well, they might be down the bottom of the table, they've only lost one in their last four, so that's something that they can take confidence coming into the game. Yeah, and as I say, they play a three at the back, they're a big side as well, a big physical side, but they do play some nice football. Aaron Moyn, central midfielder, I heard someone say last week that he potentially is the best central midfielder outside the big clubs, which, you know, with the greatest respect to the Bournemouth players, he really makes them tick. I think I'm right and say he missed one of the two games against Bournemouth last season, but he's a real playmaker. He can make things happen for them. So if he's on the money tomorrow, then he'll be a problem for Bournemouth for sure. But yeah, they'll come with a bit of confidence. The goals for them have not been easy to come by. I think I'm right and say no striker has scored for them so far this season. Most of their goals have come from defenders. Big Zanka, the Danish centre half scored on Saturday. So a lot of their goals, I think their top scorer has got two, which tells you all you need to know. And they've only scored two, I think, in one Premier League game this season, and that was the win away at Wolves. So yeah, they're a bit light on goals, but from that point of view, they do have threats, and Aaron Moyn, I would say, is the one that is easily recognisable with his bald head. He's the one that Bournemouth fans would watch out for. And from Bournemouth's point of view, it does look like Dan Gosling's going to miss the game, but it'll be great to have Jefferson learn my back, won't it? With the greatest of respect to get into him. I don't know how much he could have impacted the game in terms of stopping city threats, because a lot of them came down the wide areas. But it's great to have him back. Obviously he'll be fit and firing and ready to go. Two big home games coming up now over the course of the next few days. So yeah, he'll be back in centre midfield, whether it's Lewis Cook or Sermon that goes with him. If I was a betting man, I would think it would be Lewis Cook. But of course he got left out in the previous home game for Dan Gosling, who now is not available. What are the choices at the back in terms of which formation they go with as we were saying earlier with Tyrone Ming's as a third centre half, or do they go back to the flat four? And obviously David Brooks, I would expect to come back in as well. I don't think it would be too long before we see Junior Stanislaus from the start as well. He's been working his way back to fitness. Ryan Frazier has obviously had a tough run of games as well. So I wouldn't be wholly surprised to see Junior start tomorrow night as well. And how important is tomorrow night's game for the Cherries? Has there really been that bad? It doesn't go well on paper, does it? I think it's important because you just can't get onto a trot where you're not getting any points at all. We mentioned before about the significance of not getting anything at Newcastle. I think the one thing, Eddie, there were two points really that Eddie was keen to make today ahead of the game, which was expectations have to remain in check because everyone will expect Bournemouth to win tomorrow night because of the respective starts to the season. And the other thing he was, he wanted the crowd to play a huge part. The message he was putting out was that we're really going to need the crowd on side. If things don't go well early on, taking a while to break through, stay with the team, that's the message he was keen to put out. But you're right, in terms of having force-accessive defeats, you need to check that momentum at some point and swing things in the opposite direction. The counter, I guess, to that is that as you say, they have been playing well. It's not as if they've had scratching around for rhythm and momentum. They've got momentum from four defeats, which sounds stupid. But they have. Liverpool have come on Saturday and then Wolves and Brighton. So actually, if you almost forget the last four games and look at the next four coming up, Huddersfield Wolves and Brighton with Liverpool in the middle, you need some momentum from that. You need some positivity. These are games now that they've got to find some points from, particularly with the little run of away games coming up after Christmas as well. So yeah, the expectation will be coming ways. And hopefully, yeah, it sort of starts things back in the right direction again. Well, that's certainly going to be a very exciting game. That's all we've got time for today. We'll be back on Friday to preview the game here against Liverpool on Saturday. Thanks for joining us.