Derby County v AFC Bournemouth

A rather long but different style of report from Jacob Tanswell.

While defeats will occur during the course of a 46-game season, the nature of the loss is far more concerning. The unyielding and unchanging principles Parker has embedded onto this team vanished. There was a real distinct lack of familiarity to Bournemouth's performance, where the well-known and well-versed patterns of play we've all come to know proved fleeting.

Arguably the only time Bournemouth showed a semblance of its usual self was for Dominic Solanke's goal, where seven different players put together nine passes and saw Leif Davis underlapping and passing to Jefferson Lerma, who had drove into the vacated space left by Philip Billing. In a move consisting of several moving parts, Lerma then slipped in Solanke to finish off.

It was the only discernible instance you can recall. The issue Parker faces today is, however good that goal was, it was the exception, rather than the norm. This wasn't a case of Bournemouth caving in under the hostility and deep sense of injustice within the home crowd. Rather plainly, they never got going in the first place to warrant an implosion.

They very rarely exposed Derby's two central defenders, Curtis Davies and Phil Jagielka. Yes, both were robust, but there should be no getting away from the fact that they have a combined age of 75.

Despite a first half which did show fragility, Bournemouth went into the break 1-2 up and having withstood the early pressure, should have gone on and demonstrated the gap in technical quality between the two. A lot of what Derby did was based on heart and work-rate; the first 17 matches on the campaign should have proven Bournemouth could not only match that, but offer much more.

https://www.dorset.live/sport/football/football-news/bournemouth-looked-flat-two-last-6240204
 
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There was also some different views re Billing’s yellow card.

I agree with the comment below, it was ‘silly’.

This is our manager’s comment.

Philip Billing's 53rd minute booking for kicking the ball away was 'silly', admitted Cherries boss Scott Parker.

Despite Bournemouth leading at that point, the Danish midfielder showed visible signs of frustration and ensued to kick the ball across to the other side of the pitch, after it had gone out of play.

Subsequently, it left referee Gavin Ward with no choice but to show Billing fifth yellow card of the campaign, meaning the 25-year-old will now miss Bournemouth's upcoming trip to Millwall on Wednesday evening.

The sense of needlessness to the booking was only heightened in the immediate aftermath, given the fact that the league's cut off point for yellow cards - where the accumulation of bookings effectively returns to zero - is after the 19th match of the season. Sunday's defeat to Derby, though, was Bournemouth's 18th.

"(I'm) disappointed, yeah," Parker told DorsetLive. "He's been a large part and a mainstay in the team so it's disappointing for Phil. A silly booking as well really."

https://www.dorset.live/sport/football/football-news/scott-parker-philip-billings-silly-6239445
 
billythekid said:
A rather long but different style of report from Jacob Tanswell.

While defeats will occur during the course of a 46-game season, the nature of the loss is far more concerning. The unyielding and unchanging principles Parker has embedded onto this team vanished. There was a real distinct lack of familiarity to Bournemouth's performance, where the well-known and well-versed patterns of play we've all come to know proved fleeting.

Arguably the only time Bournemouth showed a semblance of its usual self was for Dominic Solanke's goal, where seven different players put together nine passes and saw Leif Davis underlapping and passing to Jefferson Lerma, who had drove into the vacated space left by Philip Billing. In a move consisting of several moving parts, Lerma then slipped in Solanke to finish off.

It was the only discernible instance you can recall. The issue Parker faces today is, however good that goal was, it was the exception, rather than the norm. This wasn't a case of Bournemouth caving in under the hostility and deep sense of injustice within the home crowd. Rather plainly, they never got going in the first place to warrant an implosion.

They very rarely exposed Derby's two central defenders, Curtis Davies and Phil Jagielka. Yes, both were robust, but there should be no getting away from the fact that they have a combined age of 75.

Despite a first half which did show fragility, Bournemouth went into the break 1-2 up and having withstood the early pressure, should have gone on and demonstrated the gap in technical quality between the two. A lot of what Derby did was based on heart and work-rate; the first 17 matches on the campaign should have proven Bournemouth could not only match that, but offer much more.

https://www.dorset.live/sport/football/football-news/bournemouth-looked-flat-two-last-6240204
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A decent report.Why can't the Ohec employ sports writers like this,gotta be better than the current reports.
 
billythekid said:
There was also some different views re Billing’s yellow card.

I agree with the comment below, it was ‘silly’.

This is our manager’s comment.

Philip Billing's 53rd minute booking for kicking the ball away was 'silly', admitted Cherries boss Scott Parker.

Despite Bournemouth leading at that point, the Danish midfielder showed visible signs of frustration and ensued to kick the ball across to the other side of the pitch, after it had gone out of play.

Subsequently, it left referee Gavin Ward with no choice but to show Billing fifth yellow card of the campaign, meaning the 25-year-old will now miss Bournemouth's upcoming trip to Millwall on Wednesday evening.

The sense of needlessness to the booking was only heightened in the immediate aftermath, given the fact that the league's cut off point for yellow cards - where the accumulation of bookings effectively returns to zero - is after the 19th match of the season. Sunday's defeat to Derby, though, was Bournemouth's 18th.

"(I'm) disappointed, yeah," Parker told DorsetLive. "He's been a large part and a mainstay in the team so it's disappointing for Phil. A silly booking as well really."

https://www.dorset.live/sport/football/football-news/scott-parker-philip-billings-silly-6239445
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What gets me is We've seen loads of 'kicking the ball away ' over the last few seasons without any . punishment
 
Phil Bill managed an old fashioned kick the ball away and was rightly booked.

I have no idea why so many players get away with the same thing, sometimes with even less subtlety (ok, rarely).
 
Also think this para sums it up nicely.

The sense of needlessness to the booking was only heightened in the immediate aftermath, given the fact that the league's cut off point for yellow cards - where the accumulation of bookings effectively returns to zero - is after the 19th match of the season. Sunday's defeat to Derby, though, was Bournemouth's 18th.
 
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