The Bournemouth Sentinel
Squad19 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Alex Tóth at Bournemouth
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alex Tóth is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
Bournemouth come up short against Liverpool
Liverpool left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Bournemouth
Alex Tóth and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Samuel Johnson faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Samuel Johnson after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near David Brooks
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bookings catch up with Tyler Adams
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Bournemouth will feel it on Saturday.
Market19 Oct 2026
Alex Scott linked with a move away
The name of Alex Scott keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bournemouth say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The one thing Ryan Christie could not do
Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Tyler Adams goes back to face Leeds United
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Tyler Adams’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Bournemouth needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
- The dugout César De la Hoz left out for tactical reasons at Bournemouth
- The terraces The Evanilson rumours reach the terraces
- The dugout A door opens for César De la Hoz