Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola has opened up on his side’s simple gameplan that beat Manchester United. The Cherries stunned the Red Devils on Saturday with a 3-0 win at Old Trafford.
Bournemouth piled more pressure on Erik ten Hag with a crushing victory. Dominic Solanke got the visitors off to the perfect start in just the fifth minute.
Philip Billing and Marcos Senesi scored twice in the space of five second-half minutes to silence the home supporters. The result extended Bournemouth’s unbeaten run to five matches and condemned United to their 11th loss in all competitions this term.
Iraola has revealed that he planned for his side to exploit United on the counter-attack due to the high positions they take up. He said: “They [United] send a lot of players forward so you will get spaces.
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“We knew they would make our wingers run backwards, but we knew when we could recover high our forwards would have space. We knew in transitions we would have our chances and we took them.”
Bournemouth moved up to 14th in the table with victory and have now won as many games this season as Chelsea. United stay in sixth, six points behind Manchester City in fourth.
The Red Devils are struggling to find consistency after beating Chelsea 2-1 last Wednesday and now suffering a demoralising home defeat. Ten Hag condemned a slow start from his team and apologised to the club’s supporters.
He said: “I think we didn’t start well and we already had a warning shot, when they almost had a penalty. That should have woken us up.
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“But then we gave a goal away very easily. And then you make them big because they are a transition team and they defended very tough.
“They go in the duels, they go one on one and it was very difficult then. I thought we played too but we didn’t have the brilliance in the box.
“I feel sorry for [the fans] because they’re always behind us and they could expect more from us and we have to do it from the first whistle. And you can’t start the game after five minutes.”
United need to pick themselves up quickly as they face a must-win Champions League clash against Bayern Munich on Tuesday. They then face a trip to rivals Liverpool on Sunday in the Premier League without suspended skipper Bruno Fernandes.
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