Team vs Bournemouth

[Andy1981_2]

Losing a 2-0 lead is a joke, and inviting Bournemouth onto us by taking Kenedy and Gayle off was asking for trouble... Rafa takes part of the blame there.

I assume he took Kenedy off because he kept giving the ball away. Gayle for Hayden made sense as an attempt to try to regain control of the midfield and to give Shelvey more freedom to get forward, but the problem was that they just dropped deeper under the pressure so there wasn't really a midfield battle to win anymore. The players buckled under the pressure - before the first goal we had the game in the bag. Ayoze and Shelvey squandering those chances is what cost us the game.

[Kal]

If we have to score three or four goals to win an away game, we aren't going to win many. Rafa/players f'ucked up i'm afraid.

[Jammy89]

If we have to score three or four goals to win an away game, we aren't going to win many. Rafa/players f'ucked up i'm afraid.

I do agree with this.

At same time - had you offered me 4 points from Man Utd and CHerries games before hand, i'd of taken them.

[Kal]

I do agree with this.

At same time - had you offered me 4 points from Man Utd and CHerries games before hand, i'd of taken them.

Absolutely. Problem is, teams around us are picking up points as well. 2 points above relegation right now.

[Stanleymag]

Terrible result.

If we do go down this will be the one we'll look back on as a reason for it.

[Jammy89]

Absolutely. Problem is, teams around us are picking up points as well. 2 points above relegation right now.

Aye, although at least Saints and Swansea didn't get max points.

[Jammy89]

Terrible result.

If we do go down this will be the one we'll look back on as a reason for it.

I'm not saying it was a good result.

[ghostrider]

Nah, that was a massive game for us and we f**ked up badly... this was one of the few remaining games on paper we had a good fighting chance at.

Losing a 2-0 lead is a joke, and inviting Bournemouth onto us by taking Kenedy and Gayle off was asking for trouble... Rafa takes part of the blame there.

Players need a word with themselves, running around like kids chasing the ball and not keeping shape too... so before the usual Rafa critic and his alias’ start banging on, the players should have done a lot better than that.

Never mind the critic and his alias. Rafa royally messed up, not the players.
The players were doing just fine until rafa decided to change it all and go all defensive trying to hold onto a 2 nil lead, for crying out loud.
He needs a slap off the players for that.
The game was in the bag and Bournemouth were devoid of ideas until Rafa shouted " hang on, I'll give you plenty of good ideas...I'll take off Gayle who was keeping you busy at the back."

What an utter clown.

[pboromag]

why would a manger 2-0 up and still creating chances suddenly change completly they way we were playing and hand the initative to the other team

one thing bournmouth dont do is give up

with an open game we were creating chances and they were having to be cautious not to go 3 down

instead we went defensive (rafas a genious at this ya kna) and they didnt need to worry so much about defending

why take of gayle
why not perez or shelvey

shelvey never defends he doesnt close down ,he doesnt put players under pressure

look where he is and his stance when they score both their goals
hands on knees miles away and players running past him and helping them to score

shocking decision yet again by rafa

[pboromag]

Gayle was keeping them at bay soon as he went off they pushed even further up absolute joke now its 2-2 and no striker on the pitch

im sure ash sent a mote down to make that decision