Lewis Cook

You know, 3-0 seems to be the score at the moment, doesn't it? Eight changes for Bournemouth, nine changes for Villa.

Bournemouth captain was Lewis Cook and Villa captain, I'm not going to call him an old friend, Tyrone Mings, but I thought he had a shocker.

But anyway, what I found interesting was how different it was to watch the game with no VAR.

On TV, I watched it live.

He still doesn't look 100% fit to me.

I missed the second goal there, mate.

How Lewis Cook managed to put that second goal in at the near post, I don't know.

I think you could have stopped that one, Matt.

He's a solid player as well.

They've still got Cookie playing, haven't they? Lewis Cook, who's a seasoned player now.

They've got another former Leeds player, which many people might remember, but Adam Smith, of course, who does still play for Bournemouth and had a brief spell at Leeds on loan back in the day as well.

So, yeah, there's a couple of ex-Leeds lads in there.

They are still relatively direct as to what they were under Iriola.

So I think in possession they do largely look quite similar from the, I will say, very limited game time that I have been able to find because the only footage I could find was five-minute-long highlights from individual games, which really tells you nothing about i couldn't find any full match anywhere full of no money when i was trying to prepare for this i really haven't watched a whole lot but what the data does tell me is that they do like to cross the ball a lot they have the third most average crosses per game so far this season so they do look to get into wide areas and one player who is quite heavily involved with getting balls into the box is adrian for fair they're left back who just get forward quite often and look to get to the they've obviously got a player a striker in evan nielsen who had a pretty poor season last season in terms of goal scoring but he's got off to a much better start this year so he's a big target for them in the box hyan i think is how you pronounce their right winger or ryan however you pronounce it i don't know he has been also doing well so far and he's a very dangerous 1v1 dribbler so they'll look to isolate him against the opposition fullback do like to get balls switched across with the lovely foot of lewis cook he does like to hit long balls into those channels and And

yeah,

that's about all I can really say about how they play in possession.

Yeah, I mean they've been a tricky side to play against for a number of years now of Bournemouth and I think we'll be expecting that in this next match as well they've recently had a bit of an upturn in how their season has gone as well Manchester United lost against Bournemouth 3-0 in the last match and Bournemouth beat Sunderland 2-0 in the match before that so they've been scoring they've been conceding very few if you looked at just those matches because of course before then they lost 5-1 to Chelsea and aside from that they're the the two most recent matches are the only clean sheets that Bournemouth have had all season so they clearly can be got at but it clearly is going to be a tough match regardless of how you look at it what do you expect the lineup will look like against us then

So the last lineup they had was Petrovic, Smith.

So Petrovic in goal, Smith at right back, Hill and Silva sent them back, Adrian Truffaut left back, Tyler Adams, our lovely old friend, and Lewis Cook.

And they've got a full leads pairing in there i think alex scott would more more likely be in for this game but i believe he's injured at the moment until early november at least that's what what mob tells me so that's probably why cook is playing at the moment over scott and further forward they have high on right wing clivert and tavernia and evan nielsen um They don't have anyone of a major out, I don't think.

Previous performance, points 18, passes key 4, a popular Purple Patch player pick, Jacob Murphy.

pies punt i can't believe i did that without having to edit any crap um from andrew we've got drew's dart gaming nine is this thing on lewis cook is back only two percent owned coming off an assist and 11 fan tracks points in 74 minutes and he's raring to go for your spot spot start while they face Leeds at home let's throw some darts we've got Tasha's tip picture the scene it's Monday night you're behind by six and your opponent is chilling in the bar that free roster spot you've been saving is just about to be put to some use only 20% rostered a 90 minute player loving life away from Sham City welcome aboard Nico Gonzalez and we'll take your ghost points too but remember it's just the tip and then finally Matt responded trey hume

i like how i got that so late as well when you said that to me i was just when you said that to me i was like what the fuck does that and then about an hour later i was like that's matt's pick isn't it yeah

yeah yeah yeah i mean thoughts on these suggestions obviously i know you're gonna back yours um but i'll be honest i'm not sure i like any of them this week

none of them are the best I do like I love Pai's alliteration and his use of the P word constantly and yeah definitely as a purple patch player but I think as we said with I don't I'm not sure if Jacob Murphy will play next game but um and Lewis Cook uh no no thanks um there's there's a reason he's two percent owned Andrew come on yeah and uh yeah I just kind of I just wanted to build a nice story on my one but yeah Nico Gonzalez he's worth keeping an eye on I'm talking like you know like I said you know you need that six points um he's he's ghosting quite well but um so I pick mine over the other three um and just because Matt couldn't be arsing any more than Trehu

I mean, the thing I like about yours is the fact that I do like, you know, keeping that free spot up until that Monday night fixture.

You never know, right? Your opponent has already played everyone out.