The easy thing to do this week would be to start with Arsenal given the absolute fucking bedlam they’ve caused this week with yet more cryarsing, but fuck them. I’m not going to lead with them, I’m going to give Bournemouth their due by giving them top billing after what they did to Forest.
Them winning was not a surprise as they’re flying. So are Forest of course, but it feels like what Bournemouth are doing is more sustainable simply because of how they play. Teams that play the way Forest do always get found out in the end and what they’ve done has been an anomaly to some degree. Not to downplay what they’ve done, which has been great, but it is largely predicated on scoring first. When they do that they’re a fucking nightmare as they’re brilliantly defensively and lethal on the break.
If they go behind though, they aren’t built for that are they? The key to their success is the they usually score first. That’s how it feels anyway, so I’ve done some research to see if that’s true and sure enough, it is.
In 23 games they’ve scored first in 18 of them. Of those 18, they’ve won 12, drawn 5 and lost just once. In the five games they haven’t scored first, they’ve won one and lost four. Like I say, that’s absolutely not sustainable and will catch up with them.
They weren’t even that bad against Bournemouth yet they’ve lost 5-0. They had chances when it was only 1-0 but they didn’t take them and then they got battered in the second half. Bournemouth took the lead early through Kluivert, and it’s another cracker from him, but what are the Forest players doing allowing him to run unopposed from his own half to the edge of the box before shooting?
Do they not watch football? Surely Forest have their own analysts who will make videos of the opposition and what they like to do? We’ve all seen what Kluivert can do and just last week he scored from that exact same spot, yet they all just backed off and then let him shoot. Amateurish, you need to fucking tackle him as soon as he picks it up in his own half. If we concede a goal like that to him this weekend then everyone should be fired.
Kluivert turned provider for their second goal, delivering a perfect cross to the back post where Outtara climbed well and headed back across the keeper into the corner. Lovely goal.
Kluivert then scored a fucking brilliant goal but it was ruled out for a marginal offside against Outtara. That would have been your goal of the month winner right there if it had counted. Sensational football.
Outtara fired in the third and then completed his hat-trick late on. My boy Semenyo wrapped it up with the fifth in stoppage time and celebrated with a spinaroonie. Love that, but I don’t need to be seeing it this weekend.
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