Written by billythekid
After an eventful afternoon at Molineux where the Cherries got back to winning ways with a convincing team performance in a 2-4 win. Our Brazilian striker Evanilson was brought down three times in the opposition box which all led to penalties. Justin Kluivert converted all three, which was a first for the Premier League as was the three fouls on Evanilson that led to the penalties.
Our next game is on Thursday night at Dean Court with a later start of 8.15 pm, the game is being shown live on Amazon Prime. The last time our side beat Spurs at Dean Court was in May 2019, the last home game of that season. The last three home games have ended in a draw and two defeats.
AFC Bournemouth v Tottenham Hotspur
AFCB Win
Draw
Spurs Win
The Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou in his first season and first twelve games last season, saw his side sitting in 4th place on 26 points. This season after the same number of games, his team were 6th with 19 points. Out of that 19 points, seven have come from six away games. The Cherries after the same number of home and away games were in 13th place with 15 points, ten points gained at Dean Court. After the weekend games, Spurs are 7th with 20 points and AFCB 13th with 18 points.
Away from home, Spurs have beaten both Manchester clubs, United 0-3 and City 0-4. Drawn 1-1 with Leicester City. Lost to Newcastle United 2-1, Brighton 3-2 and Crystal Palace 1-0. At home they have W 4, D 1, L 2. Their most recent game a draw with Fulham.
The last time our two sides met at Dean Court was August 2023 and Spurs won 0-2, their goal scorers were James Maddison with a first-half goal and in the second half Dejan Kulusevski.
In all our home games against Spurs, AFCB have W 1, D 2, L 4.
In all competitions, AFCB have W 3, D 2, L 10.
AFCB Team News
Lewis Cook missed the Wolves game through injury and Marcos Senesi limped off and was substituted at Molineux. Antoine Semenyo is available again.
AFCB Player To Watch
Evanilson has been a real ‘menace’ to the opposition this season, he has created problems for defenders and goalkeepers, his alertness has resulted in five penalties against our opposition. He has scored 4 goals so far this season.
Spurs Team News
Dominic Solanke missed the game against Fulham due to illness. Guglielmo Vicario the number one goalkeeper is out injured. There are others out, including Richarlison Injured and Rodrigo Bentancur suspended.
Spurs Player To Watch
Has to be Dominic Solanke who should get a good response from the Dean Court crowd. Seems to have fitted into the Spurs team like a glove and in his 10 league appearances scored 4 goals and has 2 assists. Brennan Johnson leading scorer with 6 goals and along with James Maddison has scored 3 goals in the last four league games.
The Referee
Simon Hooper is in charge of this game. He was the referee for our away game last season against Spurs.
Matt Stevenson added…
I’ve looked at the last 4 league games for Spurs. These were three home games (A Villa, Ipswich and Fulham) and one away game (Man City). Spurs have gained 7 points, but won the two ‘hardest’ games, Man City and A Villa, and lost in the ‘easiest’, to Ipswich. Spurs have scored 10 goals and conceded 4, but this is a stark contrast with xG, with estimates at 7.28 goals with 7.21 conceded. It is unlikely that this anomaly will continue.
Spurs have had 5 different goal scorers with Maddison and Johnson both netting 3 and Solanke 2. Werner, Solanke Kulusevski and Solanke have 2 assists each.
The average positions of the starting line-ups are below. Bar the Man City game Spurs played aggressively, typically with wide men upfront.
The following plot compares summary stats of Spurs and AFCB over the last 4 games.
Spurs have had more goal attempts per game and more big chances, and have scored 1 more than AFCB. Spurs have conceded more chances, and six more big chances, but have let in less goals as the opposition haven’t converted the chances. There does look an error in the Spurs team with 3 errors leading to chances compared with AFCB’s none. The expected outcomes are in AFCB’s favour, with a higher xG and a lower xGc.
Spurs have had more possession and have higher pass completion stats. AFCB have more chances from open play (which must be negatively affected by the 3 penalties) but AFCB have been conceding a higher percentage from set pieces.
Your say…
Garbo said…
This game could be any score?
We can’t seem to keep a clean sheet and nor can Spurs (although ironically they did at The Emptyhad!) Goals will be a plenty I fancy.
It will be good to welcome Dom back and I am expecting him to score, and think that his replacement here, Evanilson, to probably aswell…
I’m going for 4-2, 3-3, or 2-3…
One thing for absolute certain it won’t be an arduous 0-0 !! – To join the conversation, click here.
