00:00So let's talk about Bournemouth.
00:01Let's get it out of the way first.
00:02Bournemouth 1, Wolverhampton 1 to us nil.
00:05Keno, some shocks before the game,
00:07some disappointments during the game,
00:09and then, yeah, some explanations afterwards.
00:11Let's go into the big shock of the day
00:13when the teams came out with one hour and 15 minutes to go.
00:172.45, oh, sorry, 1.45 before the three o'clock kickoff,
00:20and that was Andre on the bench.
00:24Jean-Marc Bellegarde comes into central midfield.
00:26I think we were all shocked.
00:28And then, I'm not saying there's no surprises,
00:31but Bournemouth's opening goal was a Jean-Marc Bellegarde losing position.
00:35And unfortunately, you know, Bournemouth going 1-0 ahead.
00:40Could have been two, could have been three, really.
00:41Look, a disappointing game, disappointing result.
00:44We'll probably play better with the 10 men.
00:46But overall, Keno, what did you make of the day?
00:49Yeah, I mean, you get the team news,
00:52and you get it a little bit earlier than 1.45.
00:55You know, we're preparing to put it out,
00:57and we're sat there looking at each other thinking,
01:00surely this is wrong.
01:01There's got to be a mistake here,
01:02but Andre, of all players, has been left out.
01:05And, of course, he's scrambling for a bit of information
01:07to try and find out exactly why.
01:08And we, you know, catch on fairly quickly,
01:11but it seems like it's tactical,
01:13or tactical is giving too much credit to it,
01:15at least not an injury.
01:17But you also think, right, let's give an opportunity
01:20to speak to the manager first,
01:22and give them, you know, a fair opportunity
01:24to talk about it.
01:25And, you know, with Vitor,
01:27he is very open and honest for the most part.
01:31He's probably more open than a lot of other managers,
01:33but you never know exactly how he's going to react
01:35after the game,
01:37and particularly how he's going to answer
01:38a question like this.
01:40And he was very upfront,
01:41and just was open and honest,
01:42said Andre has been good enough in training.
01:44I'm paraphrasing, of course,
01:45but not been good enough in training,
01:46not been good enough in the last game
01:47against Man City.
01:49Bellegarde's in a better condition
01:50was the phrase he used,
01:51and I went with Bellegarde.
01:54And not only in hindsight,
01:56I mean, even before the game,
01:57we thought it's a massive call,
01:59it's a massive decision.
02:00We both felt the wrong decision,
02:02and I'm sure the Vitor would have been delighted
02:04seeing four minutes in Bellegarde
02:06give the ball away for Bournemouth's opening goal.
02:08Now, Agbedou does kill Bellegarde a little bit,
02:11really, with his passing to him.
02:12But at the same time,
02:14on the edge of your own box,
02:15facing your own goal,
02:17with your back to Bournemouth players,
02:19you've got to anticipate and appreciate
02:21there's going to be some pressure.
02:22And Tyler Adams was pressing Wolves
02:24into oblivion in that first half,
02:25comes in, snatches the ball,
02:27very, very easy,
02:28way more aggressive,
02:29far stronger,
02:30and Bellegarde's not dealing with the situation
02:33the right way.
02:34I don't think Andre gives the ball away
02:35in that position.
02:36I really don't,
02:37even despite the pass.
02:38So, it's a major, major call
02:40for the manager to make,
02:42and one that I think
02:43he got wrong on this occasion.
02:45He then, of course,
02:46brings Andre on at half-time,
02:47and that probably says
02:48everything you need to know.
02:49So, moving forward,
02:51Andre should be playing, of course.
02:53But at the same time,
02:54if he's going to send
02:54these kind of messages
02:55and hopefully get
02:56the most out of these kind of players
02:58and prove to them that
02:59their place isn't guaranteed,
03:01perhaps, in the long run,
03:02it will be a good thing.
03:03But right now,
03:05looking at it from a short-term,
03:06short-sighted perspective,
03:08it feels like a big error.
03:09Yeah, look, I mean,
03:11you know,
03:11half of the season
03:12or you've got some points
03:13on the board, Liam,
03:14and, you know,
03:15maybe there's been a little bit
03:16dip in training.
03:16You can understand it,
03:17but we're talking about
03:19one game into the season.
03:20One game into the season
03:21against Manchester City,
03:22and like you say,
03:23I didn't think he was that bad
03:24against Manchester City,
03:24to be honest.
03:25I think he was one of the better performers.
03:26So, yeah,
03:27whether it was a message,
03:28look, it's only Vito Pereira will know,
03:30but I think we both agree
03:31that Vito Pereira's got
03:32a lot of things right
03:33since he came to the football club.
03:35And this was one of the things
03:36you've got to criticise him on.
03:37It didn't work out.
03:38Like I say,
03:39it led to the mistake,
03:40which was the only goal of the game
03:42it ended up as.
03:42And, yeah,
03:43I think that was a bad mistake
03:44from Vito.
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