With a home World Cup looming in the summer, Adams’ knee injury in December took him out of the Bournemouth team when he was among the first names on the team sheet.
But the American returned to the bench for the trip to Everton, and he made his comeback from the start in the capital.
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He stresses, though, that he is not focusing on the World Cup yet, and his full focus is on the next game with the Cherries.
“I'm looking forward to playing whenever I can because I know that I can help the team in a positive way,” he told the Daily Echo.
Bournemouth's Tyler Adams (centre) celebrates after scoring his sides first goal during the Premier (Image: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)
“I have no eyes on the World Cup. It's still too far away.
“And I think when you start to look too far ahead, you get lost in between. So for me, it's just focusing game by game now.”
The Cherries are well-placed in the top ten of the Premier League after the point at the London Stadium, but Adams said they are not focusing on anything beyond their next game.
“We're not even talking about Europe right now in the changing room,” he said.
“I mean, how can we? We need to take it game by game. You look too far ahead, you get lost.
“Today if we're talking about Europe in the locker room and we drop two points at West Ham, what does that mean? Do you know what I mean? It doesn't mean anything. So, again, game by game mentality for us.”
Bournemouth's Tyler Adams celebrates scoring their side's second goal of the game during the Premier League match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland. (Image: Steve Welsh/PA Wire)
He added: “I think that Bournemouth has achieved really good things in the past couple of years and we're trying to continue that trajectory, but it takes patience.”
On the West Ham game itself, Adams said you can look at it as both a point gained, but also two points dropped.
“I think that for us right now, what we're trying to achieve and where we're trying to go, I know we have high expectations for ourselves, so we can look at it as two points lost,” he said.
“I think in the first half we were probably a little bit slow and stagnant to get started.
“It's obviously how West Ham probably plays and favours the game. So, it was difficult to put it on our terms, but a point's better than zero.”
Tyler Adams (Image: Richard Crease)
Asked what they sought to change in the second half, Adams explained: “Just put the game more on our terms.
“I think we knew how they were setting up clearly after 45 minutes of play.
“Of doing exactly the opposite of what we were trying to achieve, to come out and try and be more direct in the second half, put the ball in their end, force them to make errors, pick up more second balls, be more alert, those kinds of details of the game that are important for us.”