AFC Bournemouth v Stoke City

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More Of The Same Please On Saturday

After our fantastic 0-3 win on Wednesday night at Stamford Bridge, which made it 6 games unbeaten and puts the Cherries in 10th place in the table. We have a home game three days later at Dean Court where our visitors are Stoke City. This time Stoke City arrive at Dean Court with a new manager. After just under five years in charge, Mark Hughes was sacked on the 6th January after Stoke City were beaten in the 3rd Round of the FA Cup away at Coventry City. Nine days later Paul Lambert was installed as the new manager.

Paul Lambert’s previous club was Wolves, he left them at the end of last May, amongst other clubs he has managed are Aston Villa and Norwich City. He takes over at a club that has had a poor run of results, with two heavy defeats in December at Spurs and Chelsea, where they conceded five goals on each occasion.

On the day Lambert took charge they had a game away at Old Trafford against Manchester United, Paul Lambert watched his side from the directors’ box, they were beaten 3-0. In his first game in charge from the touchline, it was a home game, his side beat Huddersfield Town 2-0. It was Stoke’s first win since December 23rd when they were home to West Brom, who they beat 3-1. Wednesday night they were home again, this time to Watford the game ended 0-0. Stoke are in 16th place in the table on 24 points, 4 points behind AFCB.

In the January transfer window Stoke City have signed Moritz Bauer a right-back from Russian side Rubin Kazan, the fee is undisclosed. Badou Ndiye a Senegal midfielder has signed from Turkish side Galatasaray for a fee reported to be £14 million. They have also signed Greek defender Kostas Stafylidis on loan from Augsburg.

The last time we played Stoke City was back in October at their ground, the Cherries running out 1-2 winners. In the Premier League games at Dean Court, Stoke won 1-3 in our first season in the league and last season it finished all square 2-2. In all league games against them at home, AFCB have won 4, drawn 5 and lost 3. In all competitions, AFCB have won 7, drawn 7 and lost 13.

AFCB Team News
Adam Smith will most likely be missing through injury. Otherwise no new injuries have been reported. Amongst our players going out on loan are Connor Mahoney to Barnsley, Lewis Grabban
to Aston Villa and Benik Afobe back to his old club Wolves.

AFCB Player To Watch
After our performance against Chelsea, there are a few to choose from in an all round team performance. Will go for Callum Wilson who scored a goal and was also the assist for Junior Stanislas, in a well worked goal. Callum was a constant threat to the Chelsea defence.

Stoke City Team News
According to the injury site they are the only club with a clean bill of health.

Stoke City Player To Watch
Xherdan Shaqiri the Switzerland midfield International, has scored 4 times this season so far and has also 6 assists.


 
Really big game IMO. On the back of a cracking result, 3 points on Saturday gives us a firm grip on safety. 0 points and we're back in the mix for relegation.
 
Think this will be a real tough one. Stoke will come to kick us and park the bus (as usual). They have some new signings but failing to beat Watford was a poor result for them.
think we will win by the odd goal.
 
Park the bus, they might but with Fraser driving our bus and the confidence from Chelsea game we should go through it with two goals easily!

 
...they will come and try to rough us up, do the nasty stuff and generally be anti football...we have to get at them early doors and make them come at us by taking the lead...defensively Lambert has tightened them up it would seem?
 
Garbo - 1/2/2018 12:16

...they will come and try to rough us up, do the nasty stuff and generally be anti football...we have to get at them early doors and make them come at us by taking the lead...defensively Lambert has tightened them up it would seem?

Not sure about the defence, remember they have only played Hudds and watford at home.
 
....Hope Stoke go down to be honest...over recent years some awful things have happened to AFCB involving them...Callum's injury...loss of a truly good soul in Mick C...just seems to be horrible there!
 
For me it’s a must win. Not because it’s a six pointer but because if we can turn the Chelsea win into a real patch of form we could quickly be in the mix for top 8. We are hitting our stride while others who stuck with their managers slide.
 
"Is Afellay injured?"

"If not being good at football is an injury, then yes"


Stoke fans are generally big, whiny babies but there's a couple of giggles to be had on here;

http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/276551/bournemouth-stoke-city?page=1



 
If Stoke come and park the bus, we'll have a chance of finding a gap with an on form Stanislas and Ibe, who can thread the eye of the needle. Though obviously we'd probably rather they came for a game of football and attacked us a bit.

I'm not really sure how Stoke approach this game, first and foremost they need to avoid defeat, which suggests a bus parking job. But with the table as it is, they must be tempted to try and have a go - after all it's "only Bournemouth", "only 11k tinpot ground" etc. Stoke fans as they are, will be daft enough to buy into those cliches.

If we can get ourselves ahead in the game at any point, just watch the Stoke fans turn on their team, it'll be toxic.
 
Shaqiri - "you're just a sh*t Ryan Fraser"

I'm more worried about their new signings. Let's hope they don't immediately click.
 
Was surprised to see Stoke have given up a league high 50 goals already! Second is a fairly distant Watford and Huddersfield with 44. It's not like it's because they play super offensively either, they've only scored 25 to our 28.



 
ShagWeary and Crouch their main threat. Sounds like a Panto ugly sisters thing!

I like Stoke people- they make nice flower pots made of Clay, easy to Smash, not like our Tough Tinpots!

 

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