The time when club officials from Madrid, Milan and Munich start scoping logistics for accommodation in the Bournemouth area is delayed for now. Beating Wolves would have taken Andoni Iraola’s team into fourth place but expectation can do funny things. Next season’s Champions League remains a dream some way from being realised.
Under a different kind of pressure, Bournemouth folded to an organised, muscular and determined Wolves, the talismanic Matheus Cunha scoring the winner. Even before Illia Zabarnyi’s disputed but deserved red card, the Bournemouth machine had shown defective signs, the football from the gods they have lately been playing deserting them. If officialdom took the public blame, Bournemouth deserved their share.
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