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Everton snatched a stoppage-time equaliser through James Tarkowski to salvage a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth, cancelling out Alex Scott's first-half opener right at the death. It's the second game running Tarkowski has popped up with a crucial goal - he also levelled Everton's opening-day draw with Crystal Palace - so evidently the centre-back is making a habit of arriving at the right moment. Bournemouth will feel hard done by, having been seconds away from a first win of the season before that late sucker punch. Everton have taken two draws from their first two matches, calm and steady; Bournemouth are still searching for that opening win after a loss and a draw.
Pre-match Talking Points
Match talking points will appear here before kick-off.
Team Talking Points
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1Bournemouth have a new man in the dugout — Marco Rose replaced Andoni Iraola this summer after Iraola left to take the Liverpool job. Big shoes to fill: Iraola had the Cherries playing some of the best football outside the traditional top six.
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2Rose inherited a squad that lost several of its best players over the summer — Dean Huijsen to Real Madrid, Illia Zabarnyi to PSG — and yet Bournemouth still finished 6th last season. That's the kind of recruitment record that makes rival clubs jealous.
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3It's been a slow start under the new boss: Bournemouth are still without a Premier League win, with late goals costing them against Manchester City, Everton and Newcastle. Frustrating, but hardly a crisis given the calibre of that opposition.
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4To make life harder, Bournemouth were handed one of the toughest opening fixture runs in the league this season, starting with Manchester City. Worth mentioning if anyone questions why the results haven't come yet.
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5There was at least a first win under Rose — in the Carabao Cup, against Lincoln City. Not the competition anyone cares about most, but a start is a start.
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Top thing to say down the pub
Bournemouth sell their best players every summer and somehow keep getting better anyway — nobody's quite sure how they do it.
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Avoid saying
"Bournemouth are relegation fodder" — they finished 6th last season while selling half their back four, so that line went out of date a while ago.
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1Everton finished 13th last season — their first campaign at the new Hill Dickinson Stadium down at Bramley-Moore Dock, a 52,000-seater that dwarfs old Goodison Park. The football's been steadier than spectacular so far. But the stadium itself, not the table position, is what most fans want to talk about right now.
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2New signing Ainsley Maitland-Niles marked his Everton debut with an outrageous stoppage-time equaliser to deny Manchester United victory. It turned what looked like a damp home defeat into a 2-2 draw that Everton fans will be replaying for weeks. Not a bad way to introduce yourself to a new set of supporters.
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3The club has been quietly tweaking the match-day experience too, including cheaper pints for the first 45 minutes at some of this season's opening home games. It's a small thing, but it shows how seriously Everton are taking feedback after their first year in the new ground.
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4Everton have spent three straight seasons finishing in the bottom half of the table, so a settled mid-table campaign in a spectacular new home now counts as genuine progress. It's not the kind of consistency the club had in mind a decade ago, but it beats what came before it.
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5Bring up the stadium with an Everton fan and you'll get pure pride. Bring up the last relegation battle they were dragged into and you'll get a noticeably more haunted look. Stick to the former.
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Top thing to say down the pub
Everton fans have earned the right to talk about the stadium before the football — it's the best thing that's happened to the club in years.
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Avoid saying
"Everton are basically still Goodison Park's tenants at heart" — they moved out over a year ago and the new ground is the single proudest thing at the club right now, so bringing up the old one unprompted just tells everyone you haven't been paying attention.