Gameweek 6 of the 2024/25 Premier League season concludes as Bournemouth tackle Southampton on Monday night time.
Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium will play host to this battle between two south coast outfits, with the Cherries aiming to ignite their season towards the newly-promoted Saints.
Andoni Iraola endured a gradual begin to his Cherries tenure final season and Bournemouth have began in an analogous vein this time round. The Spaniard’s aspect have picked up 5 factors from as many video games and had been most lately solid apart by Liverpool at Anfield.
The indicators had been ominous for Southampton in the course of the first couple of weeks of the season, however their efficiency ranges have improved significantly after the worldwide break they usually picked up their first level of the season towards Ipswich City final day out. Russell Martin’s aspect had been simply minutes away from bagging all three factors earlier than Sam Morsy struck with a deflected effort from vary in stoppage time.
Nonetheless, their current enchancment will hand the guests confidence of recording a optimistic outcome on the Vitality on Monday.
Right here is 90min’s information this week’s iteration of Monday night time’s fixture.
Bournemouth vs Southampton H2H File (Final 5 Video games)
Present kind (all competitions)
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Bournemouth |
Southampton |
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Liverpool 3-0 Bournemouth – 21/09/24 |
Southampton 1-1 Ipswich City – 21/09/24 |
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Bournemouth 0-1 Chelsea – 14/09/24 |
Everton 1-1 (5-6p) Southampton – 17/09/24 |
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Everton 2-3 Bournemouth – 31/08/24 |
Southampton 0-3 Man Utd – 14/09/24 |
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West Ham 1-0 Bournemouth – 28/08/24 |
Brentford 3-1 Southampton – 31/08/24 |
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Bournemouth 1-1 Newcastle – 25/08/24 |
Cardiff 3-5 Southampton – 28/08/24 |
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Nation |
TV channel/dwell stream |
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United Kingdom |
Sky Go UK, NOW, SKY GO Additional, Sky Sports activities Most important Occasion, Sky Sports activities Premier League, Sky Extremely HD, TalkSport Radio UK, BBC Radio 5 Dwell |
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United States |
fuboTV, nbcsports.com, NBC Sports activities App, UNIVERSO NOW, Telemundo Deportes En Vivo, USA Community, UNIVERSO, SiriusXM FC |
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Canada |
fuboTV Canada, Fubo Sports activities Community Canada |
Tyler Adams stays out for the house aspect however the USMNT worldwide is predicted to be Bournemouth’s solely notable absentee.
Adam Smith and Marcos Senesi are contenders to return to Iraola’s beginning XI after dropping to the bench at Anfield. Enes Unal is more likely to struggle off summer time arrival Evanilson for a beginning spot up prime.
Antoine Semenyo has been the Cherries’ star man in the beginning of the brand new season and he’ll proceed down their proper flank on Monday night time.
Bournemouth predicted lineup vs Southampton (4-2-3-1): Kepa; Smith, Zabarnyi, Senesi, Kerkez; Prepare dinner, Christie; Semenyo, Kluivert, Tavernier; Unal
Martin has provided some tactical flexibility over the primary month of the season, with the Saints boss switching between again threes and fours. Southampton have had extra success with a four-man defence in current weeks, so that they’ll seemingly retain that system on Monday night time.
The guests are with out Gavin Bazunu, Kamaldeen Sulemana and Will Smallbone as a result of harm, though Smallbone is believed to be closing in on a return.
Tyler Dibling is the person to look at down Southampton’s proper, with {the teenager} scoring his first Premier League purpose towards Ipswich final day out.
Southampton predicted lineup vs Bournemouth (4-2-3-1): Ramsdale; Sugawara, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Taylor; Lallana, Downes; Dibling, Fernandes, Fraser; Archer.
Bournemouth’s begin pales compared to their early season woes underneath Iraola throughout his debut marketing campaign, however the Cherries might do with securing their second Premier League win of the brand new marketing campaign to assist burst it into life.
That is poised to be an intriguing tactical bout and it will be fascinating to see which aspect seizes the initiative. Bournemouth’s urgent ought to come to the fore towards a Saints staff that wishes to construct up from the again and the Cherries’ capability to win again possession excessive up the pitch might show key.
Martin might do with being a little bit extra pragmatic by opting towards incessant intricacy in deeper zones. A extra direct possession play would serve the guests nicely, however there’s unlikely to be a drastic change in philosophy from the Saints boss.
