Bournemouth's Daniel Jebbison had made a smattering of appearances for England's youth teams but the 21-year-old will now be appearing for Canada at international level

Wolves took a huge step towards safety in the Premier League with a 1-0 win over Bournemouth on Saturday, with star forward Matheus Cunha notching for the fourth straight game

Unai Emery recently graded Aston Villa’s season as a seven out of 10, acknowledging while their progress in Europe has been eye-catching, they badly needed to kick-start their Premier League campaign to bank another Champions League adventure. Approaching the 89th minute, Villa’s season appeared to be stalling, a third consecutive draw incoming. Then the Chelsea goalkeeper Filip Jörgensen made a mess of a routine save, allowing Marco Asensio’s lukewarm volley from Marcus Rashford’s cross to squirm through his gloves. Rashford’s half-time arrival proved inspired given he also laid the ball on for Asensio to cancel out Enzo Fernández’s early strike. This was a big result for Villa after taking four points from their previous five matches and one that squeezes the order towards the top. Chelsea can vouch for that. Villa are now seventh, a point behind fifth-placed Bournemouth and sixth-placed Chelsea, though those above and below Emery’s side have at least one game in hand. Continue reading...

The time when club officials from Madrid, Milan and Munich start scoping logistics for accommodation in the Bournemouth area is delayed for now. Beating Wolves would have taken Andoni Iraola’s team into fourth place but expectation can do funny things. Next season’s Champions League remains a dream some way from being realised. Under a different kind of pressure, Bournemouth folded to an organised, muscular and determined Wolves, the talismanic Matheus Cunha scoring the winner. Even before Illia Zabarnyi’s disputed but deserved red card, the Bournemouth machine had shown defective signs, the football from the gods they have lately been playing deserting them. If officialdom took the public blame, Bournemouth deserved their share. Continue reading...

Some afternoons come like a kick in the teeth. Not only did Ipswich suffer a fourth successive home defeat in a game that never felt as one-sided as the scoreline ultimately suggested but fourth-bottom Wolves inflicted on Bournemouth only their second defeat in 16. After weeks of bubbling along in touch, the gap to safety is now five points and survival is becoming an ever more distant prospect. There was no sense in which this was an undeserved win for Spurs, some sort of smash and grab to offend notions of dignity and propriety, but equally it wasn’t entirely convincing. Not for the first time this season, there was a sense that if only Ipswich had been able to seize their opportunity, it might have been very different. Continue reading...