No need for distress flares just yet at Bournemouth. Trust the process, though with new frontiers of European football beckoning there are grounds for concern on the home front. If performance levels under Marco Rose remain decent, winning positions have been surrendered in his four Premier League matches. An unwanted carry over from Andoni Iraola’s tenure cannot be allowed to worsen.
Saturday’s visitors offer proof positive that panic will not help. Brentford, still unbeaten, continue to be a model of stability and sensible decision-making. And familiarity, though in central defence, with Nathan Collins absent, Keith Andrews had selected a new face in Jannik Schuster, a 20-year-old from the same Red Bull stable as Rose.
