AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe has reiterated that the side are not safe in the Premier League following the 3-1 reverse against Burnley.
The Cherries lost their first Premier League home game against one of the big six for the first time
since November 2017 – but were not near their best against a well-drilled Clarets side.
The manager spoke in his post-match press conference on…
WHETHER THE PLAYERS THINK THEY’RE SAFE
I don’t know how many times I have to say it, we are not safe.
I don’t consider myself safe either and the players are absolutely the same.
The run of form has not been good enough but we are desperate to turn it around, maybe confidence is low, we’ve had injuries and the form I think is more down to that rather than considering ourselves safe.
We can 100% still go down and until someone says we’re safe that is only when we will be safe.
We are not taking liberties and I can honestly say we have not done that, as the head of the team I take responsibility – you make your own luck and we have to do that very quickly.
ON THE PERFORMANCE
We will always credit the opposition, but we did not deal well with Burnley’s threats and we didn’t deal with them well enough.
We had enough chances to score more than one goal and that’s a huge frustration for us, but the biggest disappointment is that we didn’t turn the screw in the second half.
We weren’t able to build pressure and that didn’t really come which is the biggest disappointment.
ON THE GOALS CONCEDED
The manner of all three goals is disappointing, we can’t make those types of errors against Burnley, but we have to take collective responsibility.
We made too many bad decisions on the ball as well and we took Nathaniel Clyne off because he was on a yellow card.
We have to be better next week.
