David Hytner has filed his match report, so that’s my cue to go out into the evening sunshine and ring my mum. Thanks for your company, correspondence and views on falling empires. I leave you with a headline in which Nico O’Reilly can consider himself unlucky not to appear.
Andoni Iraola is dignified in defeat. He says what almost anyone else would say: Bournemouth were the better team in the first half, City in the second. “They keep control of the ball, we couldn’t affect it.” He accepts that Kepa could have done better for the winning goal. “But that’s not why we lost – we didn’t have the same intensity in the second half.”
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