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Bournemouth have equalled their highest Premier League factors tally with six video games remaining.
Full time: Bournemouth 1-0 Fulham
Bournemouth transfer as much as eighth after ending a run of six Premier League wins. An pleasurable, fast-paced sport was settled by Antoine Semenyo’s elegant first-minute purpose, which ended his personal purpose drought.
The race for eighth place, which ought to deliver a European place, is Spandex-tight. Bournemouth, Fulham and Brighton are all on 48 factors with six video games remaining; Bournemouth’s purpose distinction offers them the benefit.
90+4 min Lewis Prepare dinner is booked for an tried tactical foul on Traore.
90+2 min Robinson hangs up a cross that’s properly claimed by Kepa on the far submit. He collides together with his personal participant Huijsen within the course of and can want some remedy.
90 min 5 minutes of added time.
89 min: Bournemouth substitution Julio Soler replaces the goalscorer Antoine Semenyo.
88 min Willian, on the left, clips a wonderful cross into the field in the direction of Cairney. He lobs it into the six-yard field, the place Huijsen will get in entrance of Jimenez to chest the ball behind for a nook.
Willian takes, Kepa punches clear.
86 min Adams is booked for a cynical foul on Andersen. Michael Oliver, who has had a good bit of criticism this season, has been very good tonight.
85 min: Fulham substitution Alex Iwobi replaces Willian.
84 min Fulham win three corners in fast succession. The third is taken quick and given again to Cairney, who overhits his cross. Goalkick to Bournemouth.
83 min Robinson’s harmful cross is headed behind by Kerkez, a wonderful little bit of defending below appreciable stress from Traore.
81 min There’s a VAR examine for a Bournemouth penalty. No thought why because it was a wonderful little bit of goalkeeping, and after just a few appears to be like the examine is full. No hurt is being certain I suppose.
80 min Evanilson rolls Bassey on the sting of the realm. Leno flies out, dives at Evanilson’s ft and makes one other glorious save. He’s had a wonderful match.
78 min It’s all Fulham now. It’s not that Bournemouth have parked the bus, extra that Fulham have nicked the keys and are forcing them to remain deep in their very own half.
76 min Cairney, 25 yards out, shoots straight at Kepa.
74 min Kepa lives!
73 min Kepa goes down and desires remedy for an unspecified downside. Helluva coincidence given Fulham are having arguably their finest spell of the sport.
72 min Traore costs throughout the sector and finds the unmarked Robinson, whose low cross is booted away. Robinson was flagged offside however I don’t assume he was.
72 min A reminder that if it stays like this Bournemouth will soar from tenth to eighth, above Fulham and Brighton on purpose distinction with six video games to play.
Eighth ought to be adequate for a Convention League place.
70 min Lukic’s shot from 20 yards is comfortably saved to his left by Kepa. It was a pleasant thought however he didn’t get the mandatory curl on the shot. Says Dennis Bergkamp over right here!
69 min: Fulham substitution Emile Smith Rowe on, Andreas Pereira off.
68 min Cairney is booked for an old style deal with on Semenyo.
68 min “Other than the paperwork, it’s these wretched clock boards – I can’t think about how you might design one that may be much less economically properly suited to the job,” says Charles Antaki. “Clearly heavy, with no handles, and what appear to be tiny keys which need to be pressed whereas balancing the board on one knee, or whereas attempting to carry it up with out something to grip on. The previous system of enormous playing cards on a kind of rolodex gizmo had been in all probability no extra environment friendly, however that they had the added attraction of the playing cards flipping by the numbers, permitting you to guess after they would cease.”
Absolutely these days the entire thing might be run on vibes?
67 min: Good save by Kepa Loads of Fulham stress now. An extended ball is headed on by Jimenez to Iwobi, who loses Adams with a Cruyff flip and flips a shot from 25 yards that’s pawed spherical dramatically by the diving Kepa. A save he’d count on to make, however nonetheless a superb one.
65 min: Bournemouth substitution Marcus Tavernier replaces Alex Scott, who had an honest sport at No10.
64 min “Such a delight to observe Bernd Leno getting his angles proper, appearing with decisiveness and prioritising defending,” says Gary Naylor. “It would catch on…”
What’s that obtained to do with Royksopp?
63 min Kerkez, a veritable Shinkansen down Bournemouth’s left, wins a nook. It’s curled deep and headed away on the far submit.
61 min Robinson pulls again Scott and is booked. He’s had a tough evening and is being trounced by Kerkez within the left-back-off.
60 min Apparently Sessegnon wasn’t supposed to come back off, so there was an admin error of some description. Undecided why Fulham weren’t allowed to alter it, however there you go.
59 min: Triple substitution for Fulham Raul Jimenez, Tom Cairney and Adama Traore exchange Rodrigo Muniz, Sander Berge and Ryan Sessegnon.
There’s a little bit of a mix-up about which gamers needs to be going off and Marco Silva isn’t blissful. The referee Michael Oliver comes over to the touchline. It feels like there might need been an admin error. The substitution window lasted about two and a half minutes. Progress.
55 min: Probability for Bournemouth Adams collects a unfastened ball on the sting of the Fulham space and finds Ouattara. He twists Castagne a method after which the opposite earlier than crossing again in the direction of Adams, whose instinctive shot is saved out by the fitting leg of Leno. That’s a terrific save as a result of all his weight was going the flawed approach.
54 min Scott, below stress from Lukic, shoots properly broad from 20 yards after a superb Bournemouth counter-attack.
54 min Fulham have dominated possession since half-time, and their followers roar encouragement when Robinson wins a throw-in close to the nook flag. Within the context of the European race, a draw can be a extremely good consequence for them.
51 min Evanilson’s okay. He was half thrown to the ground by Bassey however the ache appears to have dissipated.
50 min Evanilson is down and desires remedy. Undecided what occurred however he’s holding his proper shoulder.
48 min Iwobi’s cross is barely behind Robinson, charging ahead on the overlap. He places the brakes on and slides a cutback that’s cleared by a Bournemouth defender. A greater cross would have allowed Robinson to leather-based the ball throughout the six-yard field.
46 min Bournemouth have made a half-time substitution: Illia Zabarnyi is on for Marcos Senesi, who was booked for that iffy deal with on Joachim Andersen simply earlier than the break.
Half-time studying
Half time: Bournemouth 1-0 Fulham
Entertaining stuff on the south coast. Antoine Semenyo ended his purpose drought within the first minute after a mistake by Antonee Robinson; and although it took some time for the sport to quiet down, when it did each groups created some good probabilities. Evanilson hit the bar for Bournemouth, Rodrigo Muniz and Ryan Sessegnon spurned Fulham’s finest alternatives.
45+2 min: Good save by Leno! Scott zips infield from the fitting and tries to flick the ball by to Semenyo. As an alternative it hits Berge and rebounds completely for Scott, whose first-time drive from the sting of the realm is turned around the submit by the sprawling Leno. Glorious goalkeeping.
45 min A terrific cross from Prepare dinner simply evades two Bournemouth gamers within the center. Two minutes of added time.
44 min: Test full The VAR concludes that it was a reckless deal with, so the yellow card stands. Had Michael Oliver despatched Senesi off on the sector, I’m undecided it could have been overturned.
43 min Senesi is booked for a late deal with on Andersen, who appears to be like in a good bit of ache. He led together with his studs and caught Andersen just under the shin; it’s being checked by VAR.
40 min Fulham proceed to press for an equaliser. Sessegnon runs at Kerkez, who instances his problem completely to win a goalkick off Sessegnon. He bounces to his ft in triumph and Joelintons to the house crowd.
37 min: Massive likelihood for Fulham! Iwobi cuts inside from the left and floats a beautiful ball to the far submit. It drops over the pinnacle of Senesi and is met by Sessegnon, who crops his header straight at Kepa from six yards.