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Introduction
REFEREE:
Tim Robinson
TEAM FORM
Bournemouth - WLWDL ---------- Spurs - WWLDW
The Vitality Stadium is the venue for Saturday's early Premier League kickoff, as Bournemouth welcome us to their South Coast headquarters. The Cherries fell to a 3-1 loss at Liverpool in game week two, while Ange Postecoglou picked up his first win as our head coach with a 2-0 triumph over Manchester United.
Spurs
Following an entertaining and evenly-matched battle against Brentford and their fellow attack-minded head coach Thomas Frank, Spurs returned to base to welcome a Manchester United side who had been counting their lucky stars in an undeserved win over Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The Red Devils' luck quickly ran out in front of a raucous North London atmosphere, as after being denied twice by the woodwork in the first half, we drew first blood through Sarr's maiden goal before Martinez turned Davies' effort into his own net.
Beating 20-time English champions Man United in your opening Premier League home game is a manager's dream, and we are sitting in a respectable sixth place in the standings following our unbeaten start, although that is still far from where we wish to be.
Nevertheless, we have now managed to make the net ripple in 14 successive Premier League contests, although we have both scored and conceded in each of our last seven road affairs, only winning once - against a relegated Leeds United side - during that sequence.
We and Bournemouth played out a pair of five-goal thrillers during the 2022-23 campaign, as we came back to prevail 3-2 at the Vitality before the Cherries avenged that beating with an identical success in North London during Stellini's nightmarish reign.
With Liverpool's backline at sixes and sevens, chaos ensued during the earliest exchanges of Bournemouth's showdown with Liverpool last weekend, as Andoni Iraola's side had a two-minute strike ruled out before Semenyo drilled home the opener seconds later.
Bournemouth
The Cherries' dominance inevitably waned, though, as Liverpool turned the tide in their favour thanks to Diaz's acrobatic equaliser and Salah's penalty rebound, before Bournemouth were ostensibly offered a route back into the match courtesy of Alex Mac Allister's now-rescinded red card.
The Argentine's contentious sending off only spurred Liverpool on to kill the game off, though, as Diogo completed a stellar comeback only a few minutes after the hosts had gone down to 10, thus forcing Iraola to wait a little longer for his maiden Premier League success.
With one point to show from their opening two matches in 2023-24, Bournemouth occupy 14th place in the table - not that their position means much at this stage - and they enter game week three now on a six-match winless run in the top division of English football.
Furthermore, only one of the Cherries' last six Premier League home contests has ended in victory, while they are without a clean sheet on their own patch since shutting out Liverpool in March, which hardly provides reassurance ahead our visit.
Tim Robinson
TEAM FORM
Bournemouth - WLWDL ---------- Spurs - WWLDW
The Vitality Stadium is the venue for Saturday's early Premier League kickoff, as Bournemouth welcome us to their South Coast headquarters. The Cherries fell to a 3-1 loss at Liverpool in game week two, while Ange Postecoglou picked up his first win as our head coach with a 2-0 triumph over Manchester United.
Spurs
Following an entertaining and evenly-matched battle against Brentford and their fellow attack-minded head coach Thomas Frank, Spurs returned to base to welcome a Manchester United side who had been counting their lucky stars in an undeserved win over Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The Red Devils' luck quickly ran out in front of a raucous North London atmosphere, as after being denied twice by the woodwork in the first half, we drew first blood through Sarr's maiden goal before Martinez turned Davies' effort into his own net.
Beating 20-time English champions Man United in your opening Premier League home game is a manager's dream, and we are sitting in a respectable sixth place in the standings following our unbeaten start, although that is still far from where we wish to be.
Nevertheless, we have now managed to make the net ripple in 14 successive Premier League contests, although we have both scored and conceded in each of our last seven road affairs, only winning once - against a relegated Leeds United side - during that sequence.
We and Bournemouth played out a pair of five-goal thrillers during the 2022-23 campaign, as we came back to prevail 3-2 at the Vitality before the Cherries avenged that beating with an identical success in North London during Stellini's nightmarish reign.
With Liverpool's backline at sixes and sevens, chaos ensued during the earliest exchanges of Bournemouth's showdown with Liverpool last weekend, as Andoni Iraola's side had a two-minute strike ruled out before Semenyo drilled home the opener seconds later.
Bournemouth
The Cherries' dominance inevitably waned, though, as Liverpool turned the tide in their favour thanks to Diaz's acrobatic equaliser and Salah's penalty rebound, before Bournemouth were ostensibly offered a route back into the match courtesy of Alex Mac Allister's now-rescinded red card.
The Argentine's contentious sending off only spurred Liverpool on to kill the game off, though, as Diogo completed a stellar comeback only a few minutes after the hosts had gone down to 10, thus forcing Iraola to wait a little longer for his maiden Premier League success.
With one point to show from their opening two matches in 2023-24, Bournemouth occupy 14th place in the table - not that their position means much at this stage - and they enter game week three now on a six-match winless run in the top division of English football.
Furthermore, only one of the Cherries' last six Premier League home contests has ended in victory, while they are without a clean sheet on their own patch since shutting out Liverpool in March, which hardly provides reassurance ahead our visit.
Head-to-Head
Our first game we had against Brentford was on Saturday 7th January 1922 where we beat them 2-0 at their ground.We have since played each other 20 times where we have won 11, they won 3 and 6 drawn games
League: We have won 4, they won 2 and 4 drawn games
FA Cup: We have won 1, they have won 1 and 1 drawn game
League Cup: We have won 6, they have not won any, and 1 drawn game.
