Key occasions
Half-time correspondence. “My dog’s called Smygu. It means smoking a cigarette in Welsh. I reckon after this, the Swans are gonna need to smoke something a little stronger to get over it. What I really can’t get my head around is why, when facing clearly superior opponents, do teams insist on playing out from the back? There’s nothing wrong with shelving your ethos for one game, playing hoofball, and kicking your opponents at every opportunity? It might be anti football or whatever, but surely the point is to win?” – Michael Carrick Matt Dunnill
HALF TIME: Bournemouth 5-0 Swansea City
It’s honest to say Swansea are growing a fame as gradual starters. They shipped three within the first half towards Southampton on the weekend; they’ve let in 5 within the first half right now. Bournemouth have been magic going ahead, thoughts, with Scott, Sinisterra and Brooks all scorching.
45 min +4: … although it was almost one for Swansea! A protracted free kick is half cleared and drops to Cullen, who shapes like Zinedine Zidane within the 2002 Champions League ultimate and sends a rising volley in direction of the top-left nook. Travers spectacularly suggestions over! For all Bournemouth’s dominance, and Swansea’s sheer ineptitude, the guests might simply have a few targets themselves!
45 min +3: Looks prefer it’ll simply be the 5 for Bournemouth on this first half.
45 min +1: Nothing comes of the nook. The first of 4 added minutes passes.
45 min: This is getting outdated. Ashby goes right into a 50-50 with Kelly so weakly. Kelly finds Sinisterra, who releases Christie down the left. Christie crosses for Solanke, forcing Wood to go behind for a nook.
GOAL! Bournemouth 5-0 Swansea (Solanke 44)
Brooks performs a easy move down the inside-left channel to launch Sinisterra into acres. He rolls throughout to Solanke who slams house. Simple because it all sounds. Swansea are a whole rabble.
43 min: This is a fiasco. Fulton, below no strain in anyway, rolls a move again in direction of Fisher, and really almost permits Solanke in. The keeper’s last-ditch sliding deal with saves the day. But why has he bothered? Because seconds later …
41 min: Cullen clips the again of the in-flight Scott’s heel, and is lucky not to enter the e book. Some sympathy from the referee for a staff who’re getting their shorts handed to them, freshly laundered and pressed.
39 min: Allen rolls left for Cullen, who wins a nook off Hill. Nothing comes of it. On the touchline, Luke Williams shrugs theatrically. You’d pay good cash to listen to his half-time teamtalk.
37 min: This might get severely embarrassing for Swansea. Apart from that one penalty-box rumble – and to be honest, they had been extraordinarily unlucky to not rating – they’ve completed nothing in assault, and appear like conceding each time Bournemouth pile ahead.
GOAL! Bournemouth 4-0 Swansea (Brooks 35)
So a lot for Swansea succour. So a lot for Swansea soccer. Solanke, within the centre circle, slips a move down the inside-right channel to launch Brooks into acres. He’s bought Sinisterra within the center, however he doesn’t want him, opening his physique and steering confidently throughout Fisher and into the underside left.
34 min: Out comes a training-ground play. Scott shapes to shoot however rolls the ball again for Brooks, who chips down the inside-right channel. The ball drops to Solanke, however not rapidly sufficient to get a strong shot away. He high-kicks extensive proper.
Apologies to any Buffalo Bills followers for these final two phrases.
33 min: Fulton carelessly swings a leg throughout Brooks and concedes a free kick 25 yards out, in a reasonably central place. Both Scott and Brooks look effectively up for this.
31 min: After the stramash, a nook, then one other, then Bournemouth ultimately clear. But that was a lot, significantly better from Swansea. To be honest, it could have been onerous for them to get any worse. They’ll certainly take succour from that.
29 min: A free kick for Swansea out on the left. The guests load the field. Grimes swings it in. Then bedlam! Bournemouth solely half clear the ball. Fulton takes a shot. Blocked. Naughton tries once more. His low roller hits the left-hand submit! A scramble. Then Wood has a whack from shut vary. Travers parries. How did Swansea not get one again there?!
27 min: Christie drops deep earlier than shovelling a move down the inside-left channel within the hope of releasing Kelly. On the sting of his field once more, Fisher manages to assert this one simply in time.
25 min: Cook, out on the fitting touchline, sends a raking cross in direction of Solanke. Fisher comes to assert, however the ball curves throughout the face of the field with out getting into it. Under extreme strain from the striker, the Swansea keeper belts clear simply in time. A fourth aim appears inevitable.
23 min: Sinisterra and Scott mix easily down the left. The latter seems to be for Solanke within the center. Just because the striker prepares to slam house from shut vary, Naughton comes throughout to blast behind for a nook. Nothing comes of the set piece, however Swansea are being severely run ragged right here.
21 min: Scott is inflicting absolute mayhem. Now his move down the fitting sends Brooks away. Brooks fizzes a low cross in direction of Solanke, however Ashby is on level to blooter clear. Another aim seems to be merely a matter of time. Swansea must settle or this might get super-embarrassing, super-quickly.
20 min: Swansea can’t take care of Bournemouth’s press in any respect. Scott almost robs Fisher, then Solanke is discovered within the field with a low left-wing cross. The striker can’t fairly kind his toes out, and is crowded out on the spot by Humphreys and Naughton. For a nanosecond, a fourth aim seemed on the playing cards.
18 min: Fisher’s couple of early assured touches all of a sudden really feel like an awfully very long time in the past. Swansea making issues for themselves when taking part in out from the again, and affected by an unwelcome bout of Middlesbrough-at-Chelsea-itis.
16 min: On the touchline, Luke Williams frowns quite a bit. In the stand, so does David Moyes, whose West Ham staff welcome Bournemouth subsequent weekend.
GOAL! Bournemouth 3-0 Swansea (Sinisterra 14)
This is sensational stuff from Bournemouth, who’ve been relentless from the get-go! Scott takes up possession, snaffling Fisher’s poor move out. He thinks about capturing from the sting of the D, however as a substitute rolls to Sinisterra to his left. Sinisterra takes a contact again inside, opens his physique to see off Wood, and steers a exact roller into the underside proper. Wow!
12 min: Nope, all’s fantastic. It’s pretty clearly on, although the VAR operative takes their bloody time about it, a lot to the house followers’ everybody’s irritation. The aim stands.
11 min: … nevertheless it’s going to be checked for offside. Was Brooks a yard off as he began his run down the wing? VAR will get the outdated rulers out.
GOAL! Bournemouth 2-0 Swansea (Scott 10)
Brooks romps off down the fitting wing. He will get the higher of Humphreys and reaches the byline, earlier than chopping again for Solanke. The striker can’t join, however by no means thoughts, as a result of romping in behind comes Scott, who roofs from shut vary. Another fantastic aim!
9 min: That all began with Sinisterra, not for the primary time inflicting all types of hassle down the left. Swansea behind, and Hill on a yellow already. And to additional add to Swansea’s woes …
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-0 Swansea (Kelly 7)
The free kick is hit lengthy by Brooks. Kelly races in from the fitting, and on the sting of the six-yard field sweeps an excellent volley throughout Fisher and into the online. Lovely end! And what a begin by the Cherries.
6 min: Sinisterra will get the higher of Wood down the left, and is hauled again for his bother. Wood goes into the e book, and from the ensuing free kick …
5 min: Bournemouth are warming up rapidly. First Solanke tries to create space within the field for a shot, just for his effort to be blocked, then Scott’s presence forces the primary nook of the sport. Swansea take care of it, and their followers sing their songs and arias.
4 min: Now Fisher comes out of his field to clear. The Swansea keeper giving it loads of swash and buckle early doorways.
3 min: A protracted move down the Bournemouth left. Sinisterra chases after it. Wood does sufficient to shepherd the ball again to Fisher, who elegantly wedges over the still-going Sinisterra to clear.
1 min: Swansea stroke it across the again patiently, then all of a sudden spring ahead by way of Grimes down the left. Grimes seems to be to launch Yates however his move ahead is intercepted by Zabarnyi. Lovely transfer, although, it’s like Brendan Rodgers by no means went away.
Bournemouth get the ball rolling … and the fourth round of the FA Cup is underway.
The groups are out. The hosts put on their AC-Milan-inspired crimson and black, the guests their Swansea-RFC-inspired white. We’ll be off in a few minutes!
Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola talks to S4C. “It is difficult always to choose the starting XI but we have chosen a strong team … we are struggling with injuries but it’s a team we can be competitive with today … for the last month we have not had a proper left-back … we have done pretty well with players there … now with Max [Aarons] injured we have no specific right-back … today [James] Hill is the one who will play there … he can do the job … we don’t know how [Swansea] are going to play … they have a lot of technically gifted players … they will want to keep the ball … they have players with high quality … we will have to be quick and aggressive … we lost 4-0 the other day so we need to improve … the most important thing is to get to the next round but also we want to play better.”
The new Swansea boss Luke Williams speaks to S4C. “We have experience in there and youth in around them as well … we have a squad of players that I’m still trying to get eyes on … a few have been sidelined with injuries and are trying to get minutes so they can be at full tilt for the rest of the campaign … I’m happy we get to see these guys on the pitch … there were some really encouraging signs [in the second half against Southampton] against a really fantastic team that I’m pretty sure will be playing in the league against Bournemouth next season, so if we can carry on from there it will be brilliant … we will have to play at our top level and probably hope they are under par … it’s the glory of the cup that it can happen.”
Bournemouth make 5 adjustments to their beginning XI within the wake of the 0-4 house defeat to Liverpool. Mark Travers, Lloyd Kelly, David Brooks, Alex Scott and Marcos Senesi exchange Chris Mepham, Justin Kluivert and Marcus Tavernier, who drop to the bench, and Neto and Max Aarons, who miss out altogether.
Swansea City additionally make 5 adjustments within the wake of an enormous loss at house, final weekend’s 3-1 defeat to Southampton. Andy Fisher, Joe Allen, Jerry Yates, Charlie Patino and Kyle Naughton take the locations of Carl Rushworth, Harry Darling and Jamie Paterson, who’re named as subs, and Josh Tymon and Jamal Lowe, each of whom have the night off. Lowe, on mortgage from Bournemouth, is each ineligible to face his father or mother membership and at the moment injured.
The groups
Bournemouth: Travers, Hill, Zabarnyi, Senesi, Kelly, Cook, Christie, Brooks, Scott, Sinisterra, Solanke.
Subs: Kerkez, Mepham, Tavernier, Kluivert, Andrei Radu, Moore, Semenyo, Kilkenny, Sadi.
Swansea City: Fisher, Ashby, Wood-Gordon, Naughton, Humphreys, Grimes, Allen, Fulton, Cullen, Yates, Patino.
Subs: Pedersen, Darling, Paterson, Ogbeta, Bolasie, Kukharevych, Rushworth, Cooper, Lissah.
Referee: Darren England (South Yorkshire).
Preamble
The fourth round of the FA Cup begins on the south coast. Bournemouth – greatest end the quarter finals in 1957 and 2021 – welcome Swansea, who made the semis in 1926 and 1964. As mid-table Premier League takes on mid-table Championship, can the Swans pull off a mid-level shock? Kick-off is at 7.45pm GMT. It’s on!
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