. Last season's game - Spurs 3 Bournemouth 1, 31.12.23
. This season's away game - Bournemouth 1 Spurs 0, 05.12.24
. Premier League Matchday 28 - last year
. See the current injury list for all Premier League Teams
. All the Spurs Stats you could hope for here! THFC6061 Sports Stats
Full league history - Spurs v Bournemouth:-
Premier Pl W D L For-Ag Pts
Home 7 6 0 1 21-6 18
Away 8 4 2 2 14-6 14
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Total(Prem) 15 10 2 3 35-12 32 2.13 Pts per game
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Grand Total 15 10 2 3 35-12 32
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Last Six Premier League results:-
Spurs - LLWWWL
Everton 3-2 Spurs
Spurs 1-2 Leicester
Brentford 0-2 Spurs
Spurs 1-0 Man Utd
Ipswich 1-4 Spurs
Spurs 0-1 Man City
B'mouth - WWLWLL
Newcastle 1-4 B'mouth
B'mouth 5-0 Nottm Fst
B'mouth 0-2 Liverpool
S'hampton 1-3 B'mouth
B'mouth 0-1 Wolves
Brighton 2-1 B'mouth
Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts
7. B'mouth 27 12 7 8 45-32 13 43
13. Spurs 27 10 3 14 53-39 14 33
Are you looking forward to the game?
Welcome to N17
Spurs face yet another difficult Premier League challenge tomorrow (2pm - SKY) when Andoni Iraola's Bournemouth come to town. Appointed in the summer of 2023, Iraola had a difficult start, but this season his dynamic side have become genuine contenders for a European place, even possibly a Champions League slot, bearing in mind that five such places are up for grabs through the league this season.
Spurs find themselves totally adrift from such thoughts, clinging onto the possibility of winning the Europa League. On Thursday night's inept showing, there is only a glimmer of such success, surely? Can you say in all honesty you are looking forward to this game? I approach this and all Spurs games with trepidation.
My opening paragraph regarding our 1-0 defeat last December seem as appropriate today, as at the time of being written:-
Remember those halcyon days of "I'm loving Big Ange instead?" Yeah, me too - just about. Spurs under-achieved yet again and fell to their sixth defeat and tenth place in an admittedly tight Premier League table. Bournemouth thoroughly deserved their third Premier League win over a Spurs side that seems incapable of playing "Ange-ball" to the requirements of their leader.
We've lost 8 of the 13 Premier League games played since then, plus losses in both domestic cups and at Alkmaar.
Dominic Solanke scored the first Bournemouth goal for Iraola and 19 in the league last season. Like so many Spurs players he's been hampered by injury, but has scored 7 in the Premier League this season. We await news of his fitness following his brief return on Thursday night.
Bournemouth invested the money paid for Solanke and more in exciting players. When "The Cherries" beat Newcastle at St. James' Park in January, I was riveted by their adventurous and exciting brand of football. Not for them all this pussyfooting around in their own half. They attacked with speed and incisiveness. Their performance was nothing short of exhilarating. It was no one-off either. The following week they thrashed top four Nottingham Forest 5-0!
When he scored a hat-trick in Bournemouth's 4-1 win at St James's Park in January, Justin Kluivert scored more Premier League goals at the home of Newcastle than his father Patrick managed in his one season with the club in 2004-05. Patrick scored just 6 Premier League goals and only one of them was at home. Patrick also scored home goals in the UEFA Cup and in the FA Cup quarter-final against Spurs.
Other notable results for "The Cherries" this season include beating Man City at home and Man Utd away. Iraola has also had to cope with injuries and he will be missing Julian Araujo, Marcos Senesi, Enes Unal and former Spur Adam Smith tomorrow. Centre-back Illia Zabarnyi will serve the third match of his ban for serious foul play against Wolves two weeks ago.
Ben Davies made his 300th Premier League appearance in our away game against Bournemouth in December. 71 of these had been with Swansea. 229 were as a Spurs player for whom he has now made 233 Premier League appearances and 347 appearances in all. This figure includes 72 European appearances. Ben made his Swansea debut, aged 19, as an 84th minute substitute in a 3-0 home win against West Ham in August 2012. Ben will be assessed before tomorrow's game.
Spurs' only definite absentees will be Dragusin, Richarlison and Kulusevski. It would be a great boost to see a fit Romero and Van de Ven in tandem. Spurs will need to be at their best to win tomorrow. I can do nothing more than hope for a home win - 2-1.
In my preview for the away game against Bournemouth in December, I made reference to "The Cherries" 1957 FA Cup victory over Spurs. I did not mention that the Bournemouth manager was Freddie Cox. He had been a right winger for Spurs just after the Second World War. He lost his place to Sonny Walters a few seasons before Spurs were promoted and won the league. He joined Arsenal, and won an FA Cup medal there in 1950 and a runner's up medal in 1952. On both occasions Arsenal met Chelsea in the cup semi-final and the first game was drawn. Both replays were held at White Hart Lane with the Gooners winning. Cox made 9 league appearances in the team which won the league in 1953. (Thanks to Declan Mulcahy for the additional information.)
John Brooks is our match referee for the fourth time this season, and the first time this year. His last game kin charge of Spurs was our 4-3 Carabao Cup win over Manchester United.
Did you know? - Former Spurs manager Harry Redknapp's first managerial appointment was as caretaker at Bournemouth (then in Division Three) in December 1982. Bournemouth lost Harry's first game in charge 9-0 away to Lincoln. That matches the 9-0 defeat at Liverpool in August 2022 which led to the departure of another former Spurs man Scott Parker, who now manages promotion hopefuls Burnley.
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