Bournemouth (A) - FA Cup | Post Match Thread

Oh do fuck off! Would you or any of us have brought O’Reilly on for Khuzanov? A centre mid, at left back to replace a centre half. Would you bollox
Take a run yourself.
We improved after the first 2 subs, neither of which Pep had anticipated.
 
Interestingly Bournemouth did drop off in the second half. They were seriously high energy first half but sat off and allowed us to control it second half.
 
A few key points...

I thought we were brilliant. Not just in the second half, I thought we showed flashes in the first with some neat play in the middle and would have been ahead comfortably if we just took our chances. What did Bournemouth create in that first half apart from their goal? Nothing really. We made a slow start but despite the hysteria, Ederson wasn't required to make a single save. Overall, it should have been more comfortable - could easily have been 4/5.

The complaints about Kova, KDB and Gundogan in the middle - "too slow/too old/Pep picking favourites is costing us etc." - well they played 83 minutes and we won away against tough opposition... We'll just forget about all that, I guess?

And for the people saying Pep should walk in the Match Thread at half-time... Seven FA Cup semi-finals in a fucking row. The man can take us down to Division 8 for all I care.
 
Great gritty 2nd half. Well done blues. Nunes despite his monumental fuck up, had a good game.
 

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