Poor Cherries are picked off

seven games out of 10, then you are doing OK.”

Stoke deserved their victory as they equalled a club-record 21 clean JONATHAN WOODGATE sheets for the season. is backing his Teen defender Will “underdogs” to get the Forrester put them ahead better of Brentford in the with a debut goal as he play-offs, despite their hooked home from end-of-season wobble. Jordan Thompson’s

Cherries boss 36th-minute corner. Woodgate (right) Jacob Brown then saw his side saw his header slump to a third brilliantly straight defeat, blocked by but insisted: Cameron

“This has Carter-Vickers, nothing to do but, seven with the play-offs, minutes after the believe me. break, John Obi Mikel

“We’ll be the underdogs found Sam Clucas, who – it’s all on Brentford as slipped the ball to Tommy the favourites, but we’ll Smith to fire home. give it our best shot. Stoke manager Michael

“I’m 100 per cent O’Neill said: “It was a very confident in the team. good afternoon for us. We

“When I came in, the finish on a positive. objective was to finish in “We’ve got to keep the play-offs and we’ve looking for that bit of done that by seven quality and keep adding points. If you’re winning to our squad hopefully.” BOURNEMOUTH: Begovic 6, Smith 6 (Stacey 75), Carter-Vickers 7, Cook 5 (Mepham 69, 6), Kelly 6, Lerma 6, Pearson 6 (Riquelme 55, 5), Brooks 5, Billing 5 (Long 75), Danjuma 6, Solanke 6.

STOKE CITY: Davies 6, Smith 7, Batth 8, Forrester 8, Norrington-Davies 7, Clucas 7, Obi Mikel 7, Thompson 8, Tymon 7, Matondo 7 (Norton 90), Brown 6 (Vokes 90).

MAN OF THE MATCH: Jordan Thompson. Scored one and made one in a strong performance from midfield.

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