“Why’s it so quiet in here?” U.S. men’s national team captain Tyler Adams remembered thinking to himself during Bournemouth’s Premier League victory over Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
Adams came off the bench for the final 20 minutes of the top-flight clash earlier this month with the score locked at 1–1. After crashing out of the Carabao and FA Cup in successive games, the north London crowd was palpably fearful of a Premier League setback just as Manchester City clicked into top gear. Adams and the rest of the Bournemouth roster harnessed that nervous energy to their own advantage.
