Bournemouth (H) 30/11: Build-Up & Match Thread

[NicholasG1973]

Johnstone has been training all week but is feeling ill on Saturday

Don’t mind admitting that I got this embarrassingly wrong.

What a total waste of fucking money.

 

[Jolemai]

Don't worry, we'll flip him for £10.5M at the start of next season...

 

[Templeton Peck]

Don’t mind admitting that I got this embarrassingly wrong.

What a total waste of fucking money.

Basically paid 10m to get Sa to play slightly better.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Basically paid 10m to get Sa to play slightly better.

If it works it's cheaper than paying for Ramsdale for a similar result.

 

[PuntsWolf]

He isn’t playing better though? We’ve just made him lamp it long

 

[NicholasG1973]

He isn’t playing better though? We’ve just made him lamp it long

Well, he hasn’t thrown any in for a couple of games which is an improvement in itself…..

Progress, not perfection.

 

[Templeton Peck]

He isn’t playing better though? We’ve just made him lamp it long

I'd disagree. Think he's been a little better than usual.

 

[Aikiwolf]

Well, he hasn’t thrown any in for a couple of games which is an improvement in itself…..

Progress, not perfection.

Well, if this hasn't guaranteed a Bournemouth with a 1-0 win after a Sa howler I don't know what will.

 

[PuntsWolf]

I'd disagree. Think he's been a little better than usual.

He played a big part in the Palace goals only 3 games ago. He makes great saves, makes some howlers and can’t play with his feet for shit. Nothings changed from the first 2. We’ve taken the third out of the equation (rightly so)

 

[Jinky]

Sa automatically looks better because Johnstone dives like a tree that’s been felled in a forest.

 

[Tony Towner]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1862487561404350758

 

[BillyDee]

Any news if Johnstone is available..?

 

[Tony Towner]

Farted and followed through so a gametime decision

 

[BillyDee]

We've all been there...

 

[1986]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1862487561404350758

Doesn't look too happy........

 

[Kenny]

Doesn't look too happy........

Same stomach issue as Johnstone is think...

 

[The Bear]

Wolves boss Gary O'Neil has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Bournemouth (kick-off 15:00 GMT).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

Pablo Sarabia, Craig Dawson and Santiago Bueno are all available after missing the win at Fulham through injury. O'Neil also expects goalkeeper Sam Johnstone to be part of the matchday squad.

Captain Mario Lemina impressed at centre-back alongside Toti Gomes at Fulham, with Dawson and Bueno absent. "I think he can play there. It was a decent discovery for us, with the injury to Yerson Mosquera and some other factors that have led to us being a little bit short in that area. To be as good as he was in a centre-back partnership of just two was very impressive."

O'Neil has "zero concerns" about in-form forward Matheus Cunha potentially being a target for other clubs in January. Asked if there was a scenario when an answer to an enquiry would be anything but 'no', O'Neil replied: "Matheus won't leave in January, definitely not."

On Bournemouth: "They'll be a tough test. They press the most in the league, they're incredibly direct and play a lot of long balls. They play forward and test your resilience. We're four unbeaten but desperate to make it five."

 

[NicholasG1973]

I can see Gary playing Lemina in a Coady-like role, in the middle of Dawson and Santi, tomorrow.

I reckon he’ll do anything to get Andre, Joao and Mario in the same side - last weeks performance might just be his way of justifying it.

 

[Alan]

The face I pull when people think Semedo is even our best looking right back

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I didn’t miss this, btw, it just took me three days to come to terms with it

 

[big mean bunny]

If it works it's cheaper than paying for Ramsdale for a similar result.

The issue is they could have spent the money on a project or development keeper to get ready to actually replace Sa. Not someone that all the metrics and previous evidence indicated was actually not good enough.