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AFCB Go To North London Full Of Confidence
After a good performance against Fulham on Boxing Day at Dean Court, our players are playing full of confidence and also seemed to have really gelled as a team. Someone drops out because of injury and the person who comes in as a replacement fits straight into that spot. We saw against Fulham how Alex Scott fitted into the role that Lewis Cook usually has playing alongside Ryan Christie. For his second game as a left back, Dango Ouattara had a great game and our manager has found a player normally used to playing as a winger, who now looks a natural left back and against Fulham, gave a MOM performance.
The Cherries next game is a visit on Sunday to North London to play Spurs at 2 pm. This will be a real test to see how far our side has come as Spurs seemed to have found their form again after a recent run of poor results, including four defeats and a draw. Winning their last three games, two at home, but came unstuck at Brighton on Thursday night losing 4-2. This will be the last game of the year and the half way stage of the season. Can our side come away with the points like last season?
At home since our game earlier at Dean Court, Spurs have beaten both Sheffield United and Liverpool 2-1, Fulham 2-0, their biggest home win so far, 4-1 against Newcastle United and Everton 2-1. They lost to Chelsea 1-4, both 1-2 against Aston Villa and West Ham. Away from home, they won against AFCB, Burnley (biggest win so far), Luton Town, Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest. They have drawn with Arsenal, Manchester City and lost to Wolves and Brighton.
The last time our side played Spurs away, was back in April and it was our first ever victory on their soil. Son opened the scoring for the home side, but Matias Vina equalised before half-time. Dominic Solanke put the Cherries into the lead six minutes after the break. Arnaut Danjuma our former player, who came on as a substitute equalised with two minutes of normal time, but Dango Ouattara scored a great winning goal in injury time, to make the score 2-3 and AFCB went home smiling with all three points in the bag.
In our away games against Spurs, AFCB have W 1, D 0, L 5.
All competitions, AFCB have W 3, D 2, L 9.
Spurs Team News
They have a number of injuries, James Maddison, Micky Van den Ven, James Solomon, Ivan Perisic, Ryan Sessegnon, Rodrigo Bentancur and Alfie Whiteman. Their latest injury is Christian Romero. Yves Bissouma and Dejan Kulusevski are suspended.
Spurs Player To Watch
Son Hueng Min has done a good job of filling the gap left by Harry Kane. Son has already scored 11 goals and has 4 assists. The other player is Richarlison, who has hit form and has scored 4 goals in his last four games. Pedro Porro has had 4 assists in his last 8 games.
AFCB Team News
No reports of any new injuries or players returning.
AFCB Player To Watch
Dominic Solanke has scored 8 goals in his last seven games, which includes a penalty. Dango Ouattara who has had two good games in his left back role, will possibly face Brennan Johnson, this will be another good test for our left back.
The Referee
John Brooks will be taking his third game involving AFCB this season when we play Spurs. The other two games were away at Brighton and home against Liverpool in the League Cup.
After a good performance against Fulham on Boxing Day at Dean Court, our players are playing full of confidence and also seemed to have really gelled as a team. Someone drops out because of injury and the person who comes in as a replacement fits straight into that spot. We saw against Fulham how Alex Scott fitted into the role that Lewis Cook usually has playing alongside Ryan Christie. For his second game as a left back, Dango Ouattara had a great game and our manager has found a player normally used to playing as a winger, who now looks a natural left back and against Fulham, gave a MOM performance.
The Cherries next game is a visit on Sunday to North London to play Spurs at 2 pm. This will be a real test to see how far our side has come as Spurs seemed to have found their form again after a recent run of poor results, including four defeats and a draw. Winning their last three games, two at home, but came unstuck at Brighton on Thursday night losing 4-2. This will be the last game of the year and the half way stage of the season. Can our side come away with the points like last season?
At home since our game earlier at Dean Court, Spurs have beaten both Sheffield United and Liverpool 2-1, Fulham 2-0, their biggest home win so far, 4-1 against Newcastle United and Everton 2-1. They lost to Chelsea 1-4, both 1-2 against Aston Villa and West Ham. Away from home, they won against AFCB, Burnley (biggest win so far), Luton Town, Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest. They have drawn with Arsenal, Manchester City and lost to Wolves and Brighton.
The last time our side played Spurs away, was back in April and it was our first ever victory on their soil. Son opened the scoring for the home side, but Matias Vina equalised before half-time. Dominic Solanke put the Cherries into the lead six minutes after the break. Arnaut Danjuma our former player, who came on as a substitute equalised with two minutes of normal time, but Dango Ouattara scored a great winning goal in injury time, to make the score 2-3 and AFCB went home smiling with all three points in the bag.
In our away games against Spurs, AFCB have W 1, D 0, L 5.
All competitions, AFCB have W 3, D 2, L 9.
Spurs Team News
They have a number of injuries, James Maddison, Micky Van den Ven, James Solomon, Ivan Perisic, Ryan Sessegnon, Rodrigo Bentancur and Alfie Whiteman. Their latest injury is Christian Romero. Yves Bissouma and Dejan Kulusevski are suspended.
Spurs Player To Watch
Son Hueng Min has done a good job of filling the gap left by Harry Kane. Son has already scored 11 goals and has 4 assists. The other player is Richarlison, who has hit form and has scored 4 goals in his last four games. Pedro Porro has had 4 assists in his last 8 games.
AFCB Team News
No reports of any new injuries or players returning.
AFCB Player To Watch
Dominic Solanke has scored 8 goals in his last seven games, which includes a penalty. Dango Ouattara who has had two good games in his left back role, will possibly face Brennan Johnson, this will be another good test for our left back.
The Referee
John Brooks will be taking his third game involving AFCB this season when we play Spurs. The other two games were away at Brighton and home against Liverpool in the League Cup.
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