AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe has spoken to the media following the Cherries’ 2-1 defeat to Southampton this afternoon.
A double from Dusan Tadic ensured that Joshua King’s strike on half-time counted for nothing, as AFC Bournemouth now sit 12th in the Premier League.
And after the game, Howe addressed the following points…
The performance
I think it's difficult to say what we deserved today. Overall, I'm disappointed with the performance.
For a footballing team, I thought we gave the ball away cheaply today so it was difficult to get the control we wanted from there. The game was there for us to exert more influence on, but we were wasteful with the ball and that was our biggest downfall.
The togetherness
The spirit is there and the will to do well is there, but we complicated the game and made too many individual mistakes, which I think were optimised by the goals we conceded.
I think the two decisions on the edge of the box cost us in that respect. We have been vulnerable on the break in recent weeks, so that's something that we need to go and reflect on.
The attacking play
I felt we scored a big goal on half time and started the second half quite well really.
The platform was there to win the game from that point, but we made bad decisions individually today, so we lost the control of the match that I thought we had.
We conceded the second goal and they then had something to defend and hold on to.