Historic highs tend to be followed by anticlimaxes but for Bournemouth the deflation lay solely in the outcome. The 4-3 win
against Liverpool last week was described as the greatest result in their 117-year existence and while the sequel contained similar levels of drama, the result will inspire fewer superlatives in Dorset. When asked if it was good to be back at Turf Moor, the former Burnley manager Eddie Howe simply said: “No.”
His side illustrated their powers of recovery for a second successive week, rallying again after trailing 2-0 and 3-1, and scored another injury-time goal, but Charlie Daniels’s thunderbolt did not assume the same significance as Nathan Aké’s winner against Liverpool. Howe had further proof of the character in his group but cautioned: “We don’t [just] want to become a team that plays well when chasing the game.”
