Bournemouth had 6 first team starts missing through injury yesterday

The areas we were weak in yesterday (regarding playing inexperienced players) was at the back, and in midfield when we brought Powell on (which everyone knows we are stacked in so that is just plain unlucky) the only senior player we have sold than could have helped the defensive situation was Rafael and i doubt he'd be happy to stay and play 3rd choice right back behind Darmian and Valencia (Also Smalling/Jones can play RB, but again injuries. But that's 4 players at right back alone, suggesting we aren't weak there) Left back we have Shaw, Rojo and Blind but 2 of them are injured and 1 is having to fill in at centre back because of injuries, we also didn't sell any first team centre backs in the summer so your point doesn't apply here.

Sure we aren't good going forward but the quality of the players are of a higher standard in that area compared to at the back and i doubt Chicha and RVP would have been happy to stick around for their chance incase of an injury crises and Januzaj needs games as well as Wilson, which at the time they wouldn't have been guaranteed to get.

Sometimes you have to make decisions and theres a certainly level of risk and reward involved with the posssibility that it could go wrong, we've had a LOT of injuries, any team would suffer with this many injuries, i think you have to look at that first and say we've been unlucky rather than blaiming the selling of certain players.

I'm not saying LVG doesn't need to take the flack for some of whats happened, but everyone does, it's a mixed bag IMO We know we are capable of scoring and producing in games as we had been playing decent before this run of 0-0's etc and last season we had some dreadful games before hitting form vs Spurs, City and Liverpool, that sort of run is just round the corner, i'm confident we'll pick up soon.

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