AFC Bournemouth v Wolves

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Simon Hooper is the referee. Had him last season on three occasions, in the League Cup at home against Blackburn Rovers. In the PL away at this weekend’s opponents Wolves and home against West Ham.
 
I can't remember whether its meant to be 'VAR to overturn all onfield ref decisions' week or 'VAR not to overturn all onfield ref decisions' week this week - can anyone enlighten me?
 
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Smith-----Cook----Ake-----Rico
---H. Wilson---Billing---Lerma---
Danjuma-----Wilson-----Fraser

Subs: Boruc, Mepham, Kelly, Francis, Gosling, L. Cook, Solanke
 
Neil Dawson said:
yep! But will never happen. Solanke in with 4-4-2
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Would take that over King in a 442 tbh. But would much rather we scrapped the 442 aside from games that are suited to counter attacking. Wolves will sit back all day long and we need to find a way to counteract that, just play our normal way and it won’t be a pretty spectacle.
 
Lerma is playing this evening in New York for Colombia (1am our time). That’s a shorter flight than from South America or Miami where Colombia played previously, but even so we left him out of the previous games after International duty
 
Waz afcb said:
Would take that over King in a 442 tbh. But would much rather we scrapped the 442 aside from games that are suited to counter attacking. Wolves will sit back all day long and we need to find a way to counteract that, just play our normal way and it won’t be a pretty spectacle.
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If it is anything like their game against Villa, ‘it won’t be a pretty spectacle’.
 
------------Ramsdale------------
Smith-----Cook----Ake-----Rico
H. Wilson---Billing---L.Cook---Fraser
——————Solanke
——————Wilson
 
From their win away at Manchester City.

City played in a 4-3-3 formation and there were some changes from the Champions League game against Dinamo Zagreb. Benjamin Mendy was injured and this was the first time for João Cancelo to start as a left-back for City. Given the current injury crisis at the centre-back position,
Fernandinho and Nicolás Otamendi partnered at defence. Kyle Walker was back into the squad, and since Raheem Sterling did not start on Tuesday, he took Bernardo Silva’s left-wing position. Kevin De Bruyne, John Stones were still injured and unavailable.

Wolves did not use their 3-4-3 formation. Instead, they played in a 3-5-2 formation with Adama Traoré starting as a right wing-back. Romain Saïss started as a left centre-back and partnered with Conor Coady and Willy Boly. One of the changes to the squad that featured in the Europa League victory in Turkey was Patrick Cutrone starting ahead of Pedro Neto. The others were Rúben Vinagre playing instead of Jonny Otto, and Leander Dendoncker was back into the starting XI.

Defence of Wolves
Wolves’ tactics were like the previous games in which they played a 3-5-2 formation. They defended nicely and their opponents found it difficult to break their defence. They usually did not press high but instead, they formed a midblock and defended in a compact shape vertically. When breaking down the defensive structure of Wolves, we can see them as a pentagon formed by the midfielders and strikers, and a five-man defensive line formed by the rest.

We’ll use the following example to illustrate the Wolves defence with their pentagon and the defensive line. As Rúben Neves dropped slightly deeper than the other midfielders, Wolves only allowed tight spaces between the lines – this prevented City players like David Silva from exploiting any of those spaces. Meanwhile, the pentagon was small which didn’t allow for any passes to go through, which meant that Ilkay Gündoğan below was not a passing option as he was marked by Cutrone and João Moutinho.

Even when City intended to overload the left flank, they failed as the pentagon was always maintained on the ball side. Wolves allowed City to switch plays only through the centre-halves, not Rodri.

https://totalfootballanalysis.com/m...ster-city-vs-wolves-tactical-analysis-tactics

From our last game at Dean Court against Wolves in February.

https://totalfootballanalysis.com/m...s-premier-league-tactical-analysis-statistics
 
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Could be a similar game to Newcastle. They play 3 centre backs in a deep system with lots of pace on the counter. They have a lot more quality too.

That shouldn’t be too worrying. We were a better team than Newcastle but we lost concentration and threw the game away with sloppy passing, poor finishing and more typical AFCB style defending. If we can put a full 90 mins performance in we can win this.
 
Wolves slowly and quietly moving up the table after a poor start. We're stop start at the moment. Tricky match to call.
Ramsdale
Smith Ake cook Rico
(midfield 5 of )H Wilson , Lerma, cook, billing, Danjuma
C Wilson
 
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