Saturday at 12:30, Bournemouth and Manchester United play in the first match of the 11th Premier League on the “Vitality Stadium”. The hosts are on the waves and have not received a goal of 3 matches in the championship (with Watford, Southampton and Fulham), coming also after a qualification in the quarter-finals of the English League Cup, after 2-1 with Norwich, on their own.
Manchester United lost one straight match from the 6 matches with Bournemouth from 2015 to today, and in the last 5 disputes it has 4 successes. The difference between the two batches is obvious, but Bournemouth has a very good football this season, having a homogeneous, creative and physically excellent team. Manchester United is an inconsistent band and the only thing we can be sure of is that we will see goals here!
In the hosts, Captain Francis (who beat Norwich) is uncertain, which would be a heavy loss for Eddie Howe, while Jose Mourinho is without Fellaini and Valencia. Reserving the previous stage with Everton (2-1), Romelu Lukaku has little chance of being a titular, because Anthony Martial has taken all the attention of the press and the fans! With three consecutive goals, Martial will be the main man in the attack on the “devils” on Saturday, and Pogba, Mata and the rest of his colleagues will work hard to feed the French with useful balloons.
Manchester United scored in each of the previous 4 visits to Bournemouth, but the hosts have an impressive home series where they have not lost yet this season. Moreover, in 5 of the last 6 games Bournemouth scored at least twice, and the defensive of the “devils” is fragile enough to give up again. It’s hard to predict the final result, but we should see goals on both sides in a good-beat match. In 5 of the last 6 games of the hosts scored at least 3 goals.
THE PROBABLE TEAMS
Bournemouth: Begovic – Francis, Cook, Ake, A. Smith – Brooks, Cook, Lerma, Fraser – Wilson, King
Manchester United: De Gea – Young, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw – Matic, Fred – Mata, Pogba, Martial – Rashford
PREDICTION: Manchester Utd to win @ 2.05
