Bournemouth vs. Liverpool: *Bumper* Post-Match Analysis

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Post-Match Thoughts

Paul Tomkins

Wild storms at Bournemouth again, just as in the League Cup battle. Another win, the third of the season against a hard-pressing Bournemouth side who came into this game the joint-best team on form, along with Liverpool.

And it was the Reds who left as 4-0 winners.

The gale-force winds; almost a dozen absent for Liverpool; a ref who has given more Big Decisions against the Reds than for; and a VAR who has never given the Reds a subjective Big Decision as the VAR (and rarely as a ref either, as he clearly hates Jürgen Klopp), still couldn’t stop a big victory.

Nor could starting with two 20-year-olds and bringing on players aged 18, 21 and 21. One of those younger players had a mere eight minutes of league football under his belt, and two others were making their Premier League debuts.

Bournemouth should have had a red card in the first half and Liverpool were denied a clear penalty in the second, but you know what the Reds are getting when Paul Tierney is involved: nothing. It didn’t matter, this time, but it could at some point soon. (It was a more forceful contact than Curtis Jones got sent off for, in the only league game Liverpool have lost since early last year.)

The ‘shit Andy Carroll’ scored his second and third goals of the season on this ground, and maybe the Bournemouth fans will realise that it’s not the wisest chant; not least as after missing something like a dozen Big Chances in a row, he bagged two today, and moves into double-figures for goals this season (as well as his superb assist-rate).

There were some truly brilliant displays in the spine of the team, that helped carry a few others who weren’t quite at their best, or were new to the team. Which isn’t bad, considering all those unavailable.

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