The lack of a proven scorer in the squad has hurt them on multiple occasions. They also need to score more next season. Defending balls from wide areas has been a constant weakness of the team’s defence and needs addressing over the summer. Easily the most aesthetically pleasing goal Bournemouth have scored this season.Ī lovely finish from the local man 🔥 #BOULEE // /i9AxaqYgWrīiggest issue they need to fix for next seasonīournemouth conceded 21 goals from set pieces last season, five more than second-worst Nottingham Forest’s 16. But it ended with Lerma strolling up to the loose ball and shaping his entire body to caress his shot into the top corner. The move began with a more direct version of the trademark cutback routine Bournemouth have called their own this season. How could it possibly be anything else?! 🔥 // #BOUFUL /NRcuAfjVVWīut our pick is the first of Jefferson Lerma’s two goals against Leeds. Absolute top bins and a classic inside forward’s goal. Marcus Tavernier’s curling effort in April’s 2-1 against Fulham also deserves a mention for the quality and importance of the goal. Remind yourself of it from every angle 🚀 /Kh5dhoBWdH Nottingham Forest found that out the hard way when the Dane scored from 30-plus yards to kickstart Bournemouth’s 3-2 comeback in September.Īnother nomination for Philip Billing, whose strike against Forest is up for the Goal of the Month 💫 But if that doesn’t work, he also has a cannon of a left foot. Goal of the seasonįor a player with menacing height, Billing is silky in possession - opting for flicks and finesse wherever possible. Honorable mention for the post- World Cup slump which saw Bournemouth fail to score in four consecutive games at the turn of the year, playing some of their worst football of the season. It began to appear as though they would not muster the points needed to avoid relegation but their climb up the table since defied all those expectations.
That defeat left Bournemouth bottom of the table on goal difference with just 12 games of the season remaining.
To go two goals up away to the league leaders only to lose with the last kick of the game is the kind of sucker punch you would normally hear about in one of your mate’s far-fetched hypotheticals. Most would say the 9-0 for understandable reasons, but the 3-2 loss at Arsenal in March looked like the nail in the coffin for Bournemouth’s survival aspirations. That Bournemouth kept a clean sheet against the side that beat them 9-0 earlier in the season showed how far they had come from that painful August afternoon. All the hallmarks of Bournemouth’s brilliance were at play in that game: the rope-a-dope counter-attacks, Dominic Solanke thriving in a withdrawn striker role, the duality of Philip Billing’s game. It was the team’s most complete attacking display and a perfect illustration of how head coach Gary O’Neil released the handbrake and allowed his dynamic attackers to take centre stage.īut The Athletic’s choice for this section is the 1-0 win over a Liverpool side that had just put seven goals past Manchester United. But the obvious answer here is the 4-1 win against Leeds in late April that all but secured their Premier League status for next season. The Athletic runs down some of the most glum, memorable and cringeworthy moments of Bournemouth’s rollercoaster campaign.īournemouth haven’t had too many high points this season.
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