Billy Munday has filed his match report from the Vitality Stadium, and here it is:
This season will once again be a balancing act for Eddie Howe. Newcastle struggled to adapt to the schedule during their first Champions League campaign for two decades in 2023-24 and there is a clear strategy to manage workloads this time around. Three days after defeat by Barcelona at St James’ Park, a goalless draw for Howe here on his return to Bournemouth to face a side in good form will feel like a job well done.
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And with that it seems all the juice has been squeezed from this game, so I’ll be off. Bye!
Billy Munday has filed his match report from the Vitality Stadium, and here it is:
This season will once again be a balancing act for Eddie Howe. Newcastle struggled to adapt to the schedule during their first Champions League campaign for two decades in 2023-24 and there is a clear strategy to manage workloads this time around. Three days after defeat by Barcelona at St James’ Park, a goalless draw for Howe here on his return to Bournemouth to face a side in good form will feel like a job well done.
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The other Premier League 2pm kick-off has also ended in a draw, the final score Sunderland 1-1 Aston Villa.
Final score: Bournemouth 0-0 Newcastle
90+5 mins: It ends, as it would have had they played all day, without a goal.
90+4 mins: A bad pass from Newcastle gives the ball to Bournemouth, from whom a bad pass gives it back again.
90+2 mins: That leads to a corner, which leads to another corner. The last four minutes have involved four set pieces and a combined total of perhaps 20 seconds of ball-in-play time.
90+1 mins: An actual shot! And an actual save! Kluivert’s effort is firm and dipping, but it’s still an easy enough save for Pope. Still, the second half has a shot on target! And there’ll be five minutes of stoppage time.
90 mins: Another set piece! The clearance drops to Christie, whose vicious volley hits a Newcastle arm. Free kick on the edge of the D, and surely this time they’ll have a shot.
89 mins: Bournemouth have a free-kick on the left. If something’s going to happen, it’ll probably be from a set piece, and this is one. Kluivert sends it into the six-yard box, where not a single home player is waiting.
87 mins: This has apparently had the lowest xG of any Premier League game this season, which is not at all surprising.
84 mins: Thiaw is being taken out of the firing line, and Jamaal Lascelles is coming on. Newcastle also bring Will Osula on for Woltemade.
82 mins: They don’t have a shot from that. Instead Christie chips it over the wall in search of a run that doesn’t happen, and Pope collects.
80 mins: Christie runs forwards, nudges the ball through the legs of Thiaw and runs into the Newcastle player. I’m not sure Thiaw could have done anything about it, but once the referee gives the free-kick Bournemouth wanted a second yellow card. They don’t get one. Still, they can have a shot from this.
80 mins: This hasn’t been a dull game exactly, it’s just been one without the slightest hint of goalmouth action.
79 mins: Bournemouth have a corner! Kluivert curls it in, Newcastle head it out.
77 mins: Another goal in the game I’m not watching! It’s Wilson Isidor who turns it in for 10-man Sunderland, now tied 1-1 with Aston Villa. Back in Bournemouth, Thiaw is booked for handball.
75 mins: Another change for the home side, as Amine Adli comes on for Marcus Tavernier.
74 mins: Diakite has been booked for a thing that happened a while ago.
73 mins: Burn pops up on the left flank and passes infield to Barnes, who runs into the penalty area and seems to be on the very verge of taking himself clear of the defence when Hill slides in and prods the ball out of play for a corner.
69 mins: There’s only been a goal! Not in this game, obviously, but it’s Sunderland 0-1 Aston Villa, because Matty Cash has slammed one into the onion bag from 25 glorious yards.
67 mins: Burn and Miley compete for the same high ball, which Burn sees as an opportunity to go down and spend a while rolling about. He never looks genuinely injured, but the referee stops the game and 30 seconds later Burn gets up and walks off.
63 mins: All sorts of substitutions. For Bournemouth Ryan Christie replaces Alex Scott and Justin Kluivert comes on for David Brooks, while for Newcastle Anthony Elanga and Harvey Barnes come on, with Willock and Murphy departing.
61 mins: Semenyo pumps the ball forwards, and with Pope running out to deal with it Brooks tries to outsprint Thiaw and steal it away from him. Thiaw gets in his way, pretty deliberately, Brooks goes down, and the referee doesn’t give anything.
57 mins: Semenyo sprints towards the penalty area again, but this time he goes down as Lewis Hall comes across him and again the referee doesn’t give anything.
55 mins: Semenyo needs a bit of treatment, and Woltemade and Diakite have a healthy exchange of opinions while the game is paused.
54 mins: Now Semenyo gets into the penalty area and now Livramento goes down easily. He doesn’t get one, but his prone form does get in the way of the ball, and Newcastle clear.
53 mins: Diakite did, to be fair, have a healthy tug of Woltemade’s left arm. Not enough for the VAR to overrule the referee’s on-field decision.
52 mins: Nearly a thing! Tonali on the right passes back to Livramento, who crosses to Woltemade. The ball forces him to turn away from goal, and then his first touch isn’t great, so he throws himself to the ground. Nobody is particularly impressed by this, least of all the referee.
50 mins: The main problem for Bournemouth is that Dan Burn, in particular, keeps getting in their way.
49 mins: A foul throw sees Bournemouth very literally handed possession. They don’t do anything with it. The game really needs someone, anyone really, to do something good in attack and remind everyone else involved that such a thing is possible.
48 mins: A period of Bournemouth possession ends with Woltemade getting in the way, and then winning a free kick.
46 mins: Peeep! And there’s news of a halftimely substitution! Alex Jimenez, winner of the game’s only yellow card so far, has gone off and James Hill has come on.
The players are back out and a second half is almost upon us.
The game between Sunderland and Aston Villa is as goalless as this one. Though that game has had 50% more shots on target (three) than this one (two).
Half time: Bournemouth 0-0 Newcastle
45+4 mins: And that is half of the time! This is Newcastle’s third away game this season and they are yet to feature a goal, and this one hasn’t really had a sniff of one.
45+3 mins: Newcastle briefly have the ball on the left, in a promising position. But they prioritise possession over chance creation and end up passing it all the way back into their defence. Still, this riles Bounemouth sufficiently for Jimenez to end up getting booked for a shirt tug.
45+1 mins: There’ll be four minutes of stoppage time, thanks to those few minutes of intense mid-half physio activity.
Source From: Premier League | The Guardian
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