Cherries Chat - An AFC Bournemouth Podcast
Aug 25, 2026 · 45 min · 10 segments
Jack and Greg review AFCB's opening day away defeat at Manchester City, Plus, score and Stat Pad predictions for Saturday's first home game of the season v Everton…
Greg MasdingHost
Jack HillmanHost
And, you know, there's no, there's no pressure on us in that game at all, especially compared to City.
And, you know, we all saw their result against Arsenal last weekend and, even though that was the community shield, there was certainly some alarm bells from, from their perspective.
So it looked like, you know, you never want to say it's a really good opportunity to go and get something at city, but certainly there was more of an opportunity than there have been in previous seasons.
We did eventually grow into the game and that was a really, really superb goal that we scored.
You know, the directness that we were used to under Andoni was present again with Adam Smith launching it forward and...
But I suppose that's always going to be difficult at a place like Man City, even if they're not.
at their A game it's never you know it's never easy to create something there but yeah just disappointing that we couldn't hang on obviously I think what we're going to get on to at the moment the biggest talking point the biggest negative if we're going to start with the negatives would be the set pieces and not just the one that we conceded of course that would be throughout the game I remember in the first half I think their first corner O'Reilly just peeled away to the back post unmarked and thankfully he just headed it over.
Obviously in the second half, Gerhi had a massive chance fairly early on in the second half, but he just glanced it wide where he didn't make good contact with it.
And then to have him so free again in the box, it's completely inexcusable, to be honest.
If that was a goal that my father's side team conceded, I'd be pretty fuming, to be honest with you.
But for a Premier League team, to defend like that at a set-piece is really awful.
I mean, we've appointed a set-piece coach this summer, Nicolas Gagnon, who has previously worked at Southampton.
He was the Canada set-piece coach in the World Cup and clearly he's got a lot of work to do because that was really awful, awful defending throughout the game and Going forward on our set pieces, we didn't look very threatening either.
And, you know, there's no, there's no pressure on us in that game at all, especially compared to City.
And, you know, we all saw their result against Arsenal last weekend and, even though that was the community shield, there was certainly some alarm bells from, from their perspective.
So it looked like, you know, you never want to say it's a really good opportunity to go and get something at city, but certainly there was more of an opportunity than there have been in previous seasons.
We did eventually grow into the game and that was a really, really superb goal that we scored.
You know, the directness that we were used to under Andoni was present again with Adam Smith launching it forward and...
But I suppose that's always going to be difficult at a place like Man City, even if they're not.
at their A game it's never you know it's never easy to create something there but yeah just disappointing that we couldn't hang on obviously I think what we're going to get on to at the moment the biggest talking point the biggest negative if we're going to start with the negatives would be the set pieces and not just the one that we conceded of course that would be throughout the game I remember in the first half I think their first corner O'Reilly just peeled away to the back post unmarked and thankfully he just headed it over.
Obviously in the second half, Gerhi had a massive chance fairly early on in the second half, but he just glanced it wide where he didn't make good contact with it.
And then to have him so free again in the box, it's completely inexcusable, to be honest.
If that was a goal that my father's side team conceded, I'd be pretty fuming, to be honest with you.
But for a Premier League team, to defend like that at a set-piece is really awful.
I mean, we've appointed a set-piece coach this summer, Nicolas Gagnon, who has previously worked at Southampton.
He was the Canada set-piece coach in the World Cup and clearly he's got a lot of work to do because that was really awful, awful defending throughout the game and Going forward on our set pieces, we didn't look very threatening either.
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