Just gone through their team from last Saturday against Preston. Genuinely not many players i would swap at the minute with ours. I think we have a serious chance of 6 points this week. We can only dream!
If we beat Derby they under massive pressure to beat us as if we win we go 7 points clear of them and that’s a lot to make up at this stage of season
Only thing that worries me is there pace and our high line but like the other poster said beat Derby and pressure is all on them.
Personally l thought they were very intelligent earlier in the season playing around our press, they have the players to do that and when a team do its a very easy system where you can concede a hat full. Win v Derby for me is more important.
By all accounts, Bournemouth don't look like half the side they did when they beat us back then though. A lot of their key players aren't pulling their weight. I think we're facing them at the best possible time, and to be honest, I think we've grown a lot since that defeat too. Its going to be a much closer game than last time I reckon.
Think they are one of the few teams that on their day, have the class to beat our press, but they would have to be on their game ... like they were at Oakwell.
For much of that last game we matched them. I think the scoreline flattered them heavily - our heads dropped and they ran away with it. I fancy us, but all I can think about at the moment is the Derby match.
We're a different proposition now than when we last played Bournemouth and they're not in the same form, but the skill in the squad to pick us apart at will hasn't gone away. Very tough game.
Two very different teams playing against each other on Saturday compared to then. But I don't think we've played another side this season that played like they were in second gear and looked like they could score at any moment. Everytime they came forward in the first half I thought it would result in a goal. We had our moments and actually played quite well, but I always felt if we pulled it back they'd just step on the gas again and win the game.
I think our game's changed quite significantly since then - it's not quite the all-out press it was, plus more of Val's vertical stuff now and I don't remember Brad (or Jack) playing quite as much sweeper-keeper. Not half as pretty as it used to be, but the results are right!!
probably the best team we've played this season? on that day, at that time they battered us. literally passed around us, now why are they so low in the league?
I think they managed to pass through our press for their first goal, in a way that no sweeper keeper would be able to deal with, like the balls over the top that we've had to deal with recently.
