What we now seem able to do is control games without having to dominate games. Yesterday was a good example. Leicester had way more possession in the first half, but we were still able to blow them away. Marseille in pre-season was very similar.
I understand what you're saying, but previously we would struggle against 'poor' sides. And to be fair, Cardiff were poor, but we made West Ham look poor. We've not had that good a result against Leicester before.
Considering Cardiff weren’t in the PL last season I’d say this someone was talking nonsense!
I think they substituted some relegated side for Cardiff which kind of makes a nonsense of the whole comparison but was deemed to be the next best approximation. But yes, I feel as if this season we are somehow different. I am almost expecting us to be able to maintain this or a very similar position this season, all things being equal. And I really can’t envisage this team having the customary bad run. Something just feels different. Like the players were saying last season that they feel they belong in the Premier League and this season they are actually BELIEVING it. Let’s be honest, if in previous seasons we had managed to beat the so called “lesser” teams which we often didn’t, without doing much else differently, those points alone would have put us on the fringes of the top six. We can realistically expect to be the “best of the rest” if we perform every game as we know we can. Maybe that was Eddie’s mantra going into this season and the squad has bought into it. This season the vibe in the squad is somehow different and I also feel differently about our realistic prospects. Obviously that’s just how I’m feeling but maybe others are feeling something similar ? It’s just nice to be five games into the season without having seen a single game where you felt the players didn’t give everything for the cause. It’s almost as if being a Bournemouth fan has just become enjoyable
Well, they're keen to tell us how they've managed to intricately fold a lot of paper, so surely a new stadium will be a doddle! The Chief Exec must be working on THAT statement as we speak ;-)
