Cherries coach: The central defender made a mistake in judging the defensive timing, Haaland punished us

Hupu News on November 03, Premier League, Manchester City defeated Bournemouth 3-1. After the game, Bournemouth coach Andoni Illaura was interviewed by the BBC's Match of the Day program.

About the game

"To score points in this kind of strong dialogue, you need to produce some special performances.

In the first half, we continued our usual pressing style, but their first two goals accurately found the gaps in our defense. Sometimes you have to accept that when When you play in this way, such a top team will take the opportunity to punish you, but overall, I am satisfied with the performance of the team.

Haaland is in such good shape now that once there is space on the field, it becomes extremely difficult to defend him. We don't want to change. His own way of playing, and he took the opportunity to punish us twice. Our central defender made mistakes in judging the timing of defense.

The team started well and we fought hard to draw the score to 1-1, but then they surpassed us again in the second half with a wonderful cooperation. Xu controlled more of the tempo of the game, played well, and created two good scoring opportunities.

We have a difficult game next (against Aston Villa away from home next Sunday). The competition in the Premier League is extremely fierce, and the outcome of every game is full of suspense."