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Most improved player. Take note Ibe and Solanke.
That dratted Solanke with his three solid PL games in a row.....
Most improved player. Take note Ibe and Solanke.
Yep he has contributed very well towards three positive results but he hasn’t scored so he must be s**t. Really think some of our fans don’t understand football.That dratted Solanke with his three solid PL games in a row.....
Great post.This is rebuilding. Team have to knit together, to work as a team, to build new partnerships. Rico, Stacey and Solanke look like they can grow with this team. They get it. It looks at times a bit like the first season on the championship where we made mistakes and gifted goals. There was a huge (noisy?) outcry and many wanted Eddie to change the approach. He said he would rather fail. The next season drew dramatic results. This seems to me like a shift to the next stage, becoming an established premier league club. By established I mean more than 10 years.
Playing Solanke behind Wilson changes how the team functions, compared to Wilson and King/ Mousett/ A.N.Other up front together.
Others have been tried there, notably Ibe, and haven't had the vision or ability to make it work. I think Solanke makes it work.
The last three games we have not had wingers as such. Last season we had so many games where we had 2 wingers hugging respective touchlines which meant, in effect, we were playing with 10 men. We have never found 2 wingers as effective in this division as Pugh and Ritchie were previously.
King is, in my view, more effective playing wider. Stops him and Wilson playing in the same place.
This has seen 7 points from 3 games.
The formation works because we have more bodies in the middle which many of us were crying out for all last season. I don't care if L.Cook or H.Wilson play. Each brings something different.
We are now much harder to play against. More solid. We have also stopped trying to get the ball to Fraser at every opportunity. Don't get me wrong, he's been brilliant but has yet to show that this season. Use him as an impact sub until he gets his head together. Sign or go. If he continues to delay sell him in the January window.
As players reach fitness personnel will change. Smith will come in. Brooks may have to alternate with H.W. and L.K.
The rebuilding necessitates some errors and slip ups. But we either build AFC Bournemouth 2.0 to be a vibrant attacking force or become West Brom or Stoke. I know which I prefer.
I have been encouraged this last 3 games? Perfect? No. Wasteful at times? Yes. Pointing the right way for the future? Yes.
I know he takes our corners but still a impressive stat for a left backView attachment 2255
My boy Rico up for PotM now as well! Alongside C. Wilson, Ake and King.
Would be great if he won player of the month. One of those players who I think really needs confidence.
Saw this stat on Twitter (from the last weekends fixtures)