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Key occasions
65 min O’Reilly misplaced the ball on the sting of the world however regained it and performed a pleasant little flick to Marmoush, who nutmegged a defender and slotted into the nook. Kepa might have carried out higher, so it’s vindication for Roy Keane in addition to for Pep, who had simply picked up a yellow card for ironic applause.
GOAL!! Bournemouth 1-2 Man Metropolis (Marmoush 63)
Metropolis lead! And it’s one other O’Reilly help!
62 min Ryan Christie will get a yellow card for a foul on Kovacic, as Metropolis had been driving ahead.
61 min Sure, Haaland goes off, to get replaced by Omar Marmoush. In the meantime De Bruyne is sledging Cook dinner, probably for not placing the ball out. Cook dinner’s staff mates spring to his defence. “It’s not their duty,” says Lee Dixon. “There’s no approach I’d be placing it out.”
60 min Because the hour glass turns over, Haaland appears to be telling the bench he can’t proceed.
55 min Cook dinner bundles Haaland off the sector and right into a hoarding, leaving him limping. Because the physio come son to manage to him, Iraola sends on his first two subs: Ouattara for Brooks, who was a pleasure to look at, and and James Hill for Julio Soler, who did OK within the difficult function of Kerkez’s understudy.
52 min Pep began a midfielder at right-back, Nunes, who made the error that led to the primary purpose. What number of different managers would have thought the answer was to ship on one other midfielder at left-back?
50 min O’Reilly was in acres on the left. All he needed to do was run ahead, ship the cross in and watch Haaland slot the ball into the nook.
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 Man Metropolis (Haaland 48)
Haaland redeems himself! And the help comes from O’Reilly!
46 min Pep sends on a sub, nevertheless it’s not one of many wingers – it’s Nico O’Reilly, approaching for Khusanov. He goes to left-back, instantly units off on the overlap and has a shot, which matches huge.
“Provided that they wasted a penalty at 0-0, it’s simple to suppose that Metropolis must be main,” says Kári Tulinius. “Nonetheless, given the stability of play, it will be deeply unfair. That stated, the a part of my mind that has watched Metropolis trounce English opposition for years remains to be making ready for a comeback. Alternatively, they’re simply not excellent.”
Every little thing however the “however”.
Imperious is the phrase. Empires fall.
“Questioning what occurred to Ederson,” says Joe Pearson. “In his pomp, he was imperious. Now he’s mistake inclined and decidedly sketchy on the ball. It’s a puzzler.”
Metropolis have had two-thirds of the possession, however Bournemouth have had two-thirds of the enjoyable. Erling Haaland tousled a penalty, permitting Kepa to make a snug save. About seven minutes later, Bournemouth’s sparky forwards did what Metropolis’s haven’t managed and put collectively a pentrating transfer – Brooks with the chipped cross, Kluivert with the scuffed shot, Evanilsen with the poked end.
HALF-TIME! Bournemouth 1-0 Man Metropolis (Evanilsen 21)
Oh, they don’t wish to be beside the seaside.
45+1 min Foden once more making issues occur, feeding Haaland down the appropriate. When Metropolis come again to the left, De Bruyne has a shot – and skies it.
45 min There can be yet one more minute of this half.
43 min De Bruyne to Foden once more, however Foden once more can’t fairly handle the ultimate ball, geared toward Haaland.
40 min Higher from Metropolis. Foden advances by the center and slips in De Bruyne, who twists and turns identical to previous instances and palms it again … however Foden’s subsequent go just isn’t as sharp as his first one.
37 min The primary yellow card, which ought to have gone to Gundogan a while in the past, goes to Khusanov for fouling somebody 30 yards out. The free kick, a factor of artistry from Brooks, curls previous his his team-mates and goes for a nook, which involves nothing.
36 min Foden tries a flick to De Bruyne which doesn’t fairly come off. Iraola takes a observe. His pen seems like a kind of multicoloured biros that had been huge in Christmas stockings within the late twentieth century.
34 min Bournemouth’s purpose, by the way in which, was the primary by a house staff in these 4 quarter-finals.
32 min Haaland creeps around the again of the group, however he can solely nod the ball out.
31 min Metropolis get down the left this time and win their first nook.
30 min Because the half-hour comes up, Nunes will get away down the appropriate and sends in a lofted shot that just about catches Kepa out at his close to publish.
27 min Metropolis have one other spell of possession, in Bournemouth’s half, however not of their faces.
And right here’s Rick Harris. “I think about Roy Keane just isn’t greatest happy,” he says, “that Kepa has made him seem like a plonker by that penalty save.”
24 min Bournemouth assault once more. Semenyo, despatched down the left by Kluivert, whips in a tough low cross, however this time Evanilsen isn’t the place he must be.
This began – guess what – with Metropolis taking part in out from the again. Nunes performed a horrible ball into the center, as if beneath the impression that he was the person he was marking. Cook dinner stated thanks very a lot and slipped a easy ball out to Brook on the appropriate. He swivelled and performed a cultured chip. Kluivert, bursting with need, received a scuffed shot away, and Evanilsen, following up, tapped it in.
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-0 Man Metropolis (Evanilson 21)
Properly.
19 min Semenyo shoves Nunes out of the way in which, as so many left-wingers have, however his shot is excessive, huge and much from good-looking.
18 min For the primary time, Metropolis have a few of their trademark possession in Bournemouth’s half – affected person, managed – however then the urgent is so sizzling that they return to Ederson.
16 min Massive likelihood for Haaland! Redemption beckons as he will get clear down the inside-left channel and chips the advancing Kepa … however the ball bobbled on him and he places it over the bar.
15 min That save has given Bournemouth much more oomph, as in the event that they wanted it. They’ve spent the previous two minutes in Metropolis’s field.
PENALTY SAVED!
Haaland whips the ball to his proper … and Kepa’s there to seize it!
PENALTY! To Metropolis
Silva chips the ball into Tyler Adams’s arm. He was attempting to withdraw it, however the VAR could not really feel that makes all of the distinction.
10 min Probability! Pretty ft from Gundogan, bustling by the center. Nunes can take his time crossing from the appropriate and Haaland has a free header, however he places it huge.
8 min One other poor kick from Ederson, not out of play this time, however low and straight down the center to a Bournemouth participant, who’s duly scythed down. Free kick 30 yards out… however Kluivert places the ball in Row Z.
5 min Metropolis string some passes collectively however Bournemouth win the ball again, Gundogan resorts to a foul and absolutely comes near an early card.
5 min Kluivert takes it himself and goes quick, however Metropolis clear comfortably.
4 min A race between Khusanov and Kluivert ends in a useless warmth, and a nook.
3 min Ederson completes his hat-trick, although this time he has an excuse as he’s beneath strain.
2 min Ederson kicks it out once more. That is starting to seem like a crafty plan.
1 min Metropolis kick off and go again to Ederson. He goes lengthy – and straight out.
The solar is out, the pitch a inexperienced chessboard, the group a blast of good-natured noise.
The gamers stride out, led by Lewis Cook dinner and Kevin de Bruyne. Roy Keane is saying he has his doubts about Kepa Arrizabalaga. Thoughts you, he has his doubts about everybody.
An e mail! “Because the Metropolis gamers test their wrists for British Summer time Time,” says Peter Oh, “they’re cruelly reminded about not getting new watches this season.”
Pep speaks
Pep Guardiola is aware of the significance of this sport, says Mark Pougatch. Reduce to Pep being interviewed. The primary query is about how his staff really feel, coming again to Bournemouth. Pep pauses, then smiles that smile of his – two elements pleasant, one half menacing. Lastly, he solutions. “Nothing particular.”
He’s extra forthcoming when requested about Andoni Iraola. “He’s proving how glorious how he’s. [Bournemouth are] implausible to look at, so intense. He did very properly in Spain with Vallecano and now he’s carried out very properly right here.”
Pre-match studying. Will Unwin on Metropolis, the state they’re in and the massive names that is probably not there for much longer.
The winners will play Forest
The semi-final draw has already taken place, for causes which can be exhausting to fathom. The winners of this sport will meet Nottingham Forest, whereas the opposite semi is Crystal Palace v Aston Villa. All these groups may fancy their possibilities towards the Metropolis of the previous 4 months … however in case you look by the lens of Wembley expertise, Metropolis might nonetheless be the favourites.
Groups in full
Bournemouth (4-2-3-1) Arrizabalaga; Cook dinner, Zabarnyi, Senesi, Soler; Christie, Adams; Brooks, Kluivert, Semenyo; Evanilson.
Subs: Dennis, Dango, Smith, Jebbison, Hill, Scott, Silcott-Duberry, Akinmboni, Winterburn.
Man Metropolis (4-2-3-1) Ederson; Nunes, Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol; Gundogan, Kovacic; Silva, Foden, De Bruyne; Haaland.
Subs: Ortega, Lewis, Reis, Gonzalez, O’Reilly, McAtee, Marmoush, Grealish, Doku.
Groups in short: Pep goes for previous
Pep Guardiola goes again to his previous troopers – Gundogan, De Bruyne, Kovacic, Silva. And he’s not beginning a winger, so it seems as if De Bruyne could possibly be on the left.
Preamble
Afternoon everybody and welcome to the final and largest of this 12 months’s FA Cup quarter-finals. The final time Manchester Metropolis went to Bournemouth, on 2 November, the consequence was that the tectonic plates of English soccer started to shift.
Metropolis had been high of the league with seven wins from 9 video games, whereas Bournemouth had been muddling alongside in mid-table. But it surely was Bournemouth who received the match, 2-1, and Liverpool who took over on the high as Metropolis fell from their pedestal like a deposed dictator. They misplaced their subsequent three video games and by no means appeared ahead. From that day to this, Metropolis have scraped simply seven extra league wins and have been the Thirteenth-best staff within the land – even worse than Man United.
The FA Cup is the one trophy left that Pep Guardiola can seize from the wreckage. His new-found shedding behavior has but to achieve this competitors, clearly – however then all three of his opponents have been from the decrease divisions and two of them, Orient and Plymouth, nonetheless succeeded in taking the lead. Bournemouth, even with two stars suspended (Milos Kerkez and Dean Huijsen), even after 5 video games and not using a win, ought to set a a lot stiffer take a look at. Urgent exhausting and pouncing on nervous defenders, they’re simply the sort of staff Metropolis now wrestle to resist.
It’s a sunny day, it’s the south coast, it’s British Summer time Time … it’s a 4.30 kick-off that can really feel like 3.30. So do stick with us.