No need for distress flares just yet at Bournemouth. Trust the process, though with new frontiers of European football beckoning, 2,000 fans travelling to San Sebastián next week, there are grounds for concern on the home front. Winning positions have been surrendered in Marco Rose’s four Premier League matches. An unwanted carry-over from Andoni Iraola’s tenure cannot be allowed to worsen.
“They scored two goals with two shots on target and we scored two goals with 10 shots on target,” said Rose, ruefully running the numbers. “Two very honest teams who do things really well that can cause you problems,” was Keith Andrews’s far more satisfied summation.