of Bournemouth Andoni Iraola beat newly promoted Southampton at the Vitality Stadium (3-1) and moved away from the relegation zone of the Premier League. The second victory for the Cherries allows them to climb to 11th place in the English championship, with 8 points, 5 behind Crystal Palace, third from last. Meanwhile, the ‘saints’ continued to be the vice-bottom team with only one draw in the six rounds played.
Bournemouth was a storm in the first half of the match pitting two teams from the south coast of England. In fact, the score was 3-0 at half-time.
Kepa fails and shines
Southampton started the match better and had two chances to go ahead. In the 4th minute, a shot from Maxwell Cornet diverted it into a corner Marcos Senesi with head and, at 8, Kepa Arrizabalaga He drew a dangerous shot from Ryan Fraser after the Basque goalkeeper himself gave him the ball with a poor pass.
Evanilson made his debut with a cunning goal
Bournemouth overcame this shaky start with a smart goal. Marcus Tavernier He surprised the visiting defense by quickly drawing a foul with a chipped ball in the area which he caught on the fly Evanilson to cross it into the net (17′). It was the first goal for the Brazilian forward, who was signed in August from Porto for 37 million euros.
The goal gave wings to the team Iraola. Tavernier came close to making it 2-0 with a deflected missile Aaron Ramsdale but a second goal soon came with the utterance of Antoine Semenyo.
Seminole Recital
The Ghanaian winger produced a great individual action on the right wing and, after two cuts, delayed Lewis Cook, that the shot deflected him Dango Ouattara misleading Ramsdale (32′).
Before the break Semenyo has caused confusion againhe did what he wanted Lesley Ugochukwu He cut back twice and settled the ball to unleash a cross shot on the post (39′).
Brereton came on and Southampton reacted
at break Russell Martin introduced two changes, introduced Joe Aribo and Ben Brereton Díaz, Chilean international and former Villarreal player who led Southampton’s reaction. Kepa answered with a save next to the post from a header from Taylor Harwood-Bellisbut play continued and both visiting centre-backs ended up scoring with another difficult header (51′).
The ‘saints’ tried to reduce the deficit but had no clear-cut chances and Bournemouth finished second with three points without conceding.
match lineup
13
15
3
10
27
5
24
4
9
16
11
30
16
21
26
6
35
22
4
33
18
24
Vitality Stadium
Aaron Ramsdale30
Yukinari Sugawara16
51′
49′
Charlie Taylor21
Lesley Ugochukwu26
45′
Taylor Harwood-Bellis6
50′
Jan Bednarek35
38′
88′
Maxwell Cornet22
45′
Flynn Downes4
54′
16′
75′
Tyler Dibling33
54′
75′
45′
75′
Mateus Fernandes18
26′
69′
31′
60′
Ryan Fraser24
45′
Replacements
Alex McCarthy1
Kyle Walker-Peters2
Joe Aribo7
45′
Adam Lallana10
69′
92′
Adam Armstrong9
75′
Ross Stewart11
45′
88′
Ben Brereton17
45′
60′
Cameron Archer19
75′
75′
Paul Onuachu32
coach
Andoni Iraola
Russell Martin
Source: La Verdad
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