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Follow reaction to Thursday's two Premier League games Listen to BBC Radio 5 Live coverage at top of page FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham - Huijsen header earns Cherries deserved win FT: Fulham 3-1 Brighton - Iwobi scores twice to give Cottagers victory Get Involved: #bbcfootball, Whats App on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Charlotte Coates & Emlyn Begley That's the end of our live text, thanks for joining us tonight. Only about 36 hours until we're back again for Saturday's Premier League games. See you then. BBC Sounds Football Daily, Match of the Day: Top 10, Planet Premier League and The Rest is Football. Before the Premier League returns this Saturday here's a reminder that you can now find these podcasts, and many more, in the Football Fixcollection on BBC Sounds. Just click here FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Bournemouth Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola speaking to Amazon Prime: "It has been a good game again. We had the clearest chances and we just did not kill the game in the second half where we were having the clear chances. Luckily we finished the job but there were moments when we thought that if we did not kill them they would punish us. "Our defensive performance was most pleasing. We did not give them many chances at all. Everyone defensively was very good. "[Dean Huijsen] was very, very good defensively, he got the goal. Obviously we can use his height in the set plays. He is confident on the ball too. He is good news for us. He needs and is demanding the opportunities and I think he will get them more now, Marco [Senesi] is injured so he will get the chance more and more. It is good for us that he has found the level. "I don't trust too much in this momentum and confidence thing. The league is so tight. The levels are so small from a win to a loss so we have to reset. We have a difficult game away at Ipswich with just two days of recovery. We cannot continue thinking of the standings or of the points, just competing every game. "For me the end of the season is too far. I look at Ipswich, then recover a little bit, then West Ham. We cannot look much further. "We will have to show it [that they are better than last season]. If we finish with better than 48 points then we will be, if not then maybe not. We really don't know. "We are having great nights this season especially at home against difficult opposition, and we are taking the points. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou was asked in the news conference about going over to talk to fans at the end. "I didn’t like what was being said because I’m

a human being but you’ve for to cop it, " he said. "I’ve been around long enough to

know when things don’t go well you’ve got to understand the frustration and

disappointment. And they’re rightly disappointed because we let a game of

football get away from us. But that’s OK. I’m OK with all that. "All I can say is I’m really disappointed and I’m determined

to get it right and will keep fighting until we do. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Eni Aluko Former England forward on Amazon Prime When Spurs don't have those higher running stats, they lose games. Bournemouth really disputed Spurs' flow and their attacking players didn't look like scoring. They have to figure their consistency out. FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham midfielder Dejan Kulusevski speaking to Amazon Prime: "It is not good enough. We conceded again on a corner and then everything gets much more difficult. Too many times this year we have conceded easy goals on corners. "Second half we came out much better and made some chances but we did not score and then lost the game. We are so disappointed to lose again. "We are not good enough in certain aspects, especially as I said on corners. We concede a lot that way and then it is difficult to play when you are 1-0 down. Three days and then we have another game against Chelsea, so we focus on that and move on. "Of course there is stuff that we have to work on. You can see it in the result but also in the performance. Something is missing and it is up to us players because nobody else will help us to solve it. "I think then we played good for the first 25 minutes of the second half. In the first half they had more intensity, we let them have too much ball, we did not press enough and they won too many duels. "Against good teams we always play good, so I expect Sunday will be another good performance. Then we need to look forward and improve on the details we are lacking. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou speaking to Amazon Prime: "It is not good enough. We again fell into the trap of starting the game really well, we were in control and then we conceded a really poor goal. "Then we kind of lost our way a little bit and allowed Bournemouth to play the game that they wanted to. We had our moments in the second half but we could not get a goal. "I don't know if they had more urgency but we have this sort of propensity to shoot ourselves in the foot when we should be controlling games. They are hard to beat here and what you should not do is give them a goal that gives them the momentum they need. "We started to play w ith a bit more conviction at the beginning of the second half and made some good chances. Again we made things difficult for ourselves by allowing the opposition to take the game in the direction that they want. "The fans have every right to be disappointed with the way it went tonight. I got some pretty direct feedback [on the pitch at the end] with the way that we are going at the moment and that is rightly so. "They are all big games coming up. We have to get ourselves out of the space we are in at the minute where we can't get a real grip on the season. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Jermain Defoe Former Bournemouth and Tottenham striker on Amazon Prime You have to go over and take responsibility. He's [Ange Postecoglou] the manager and he picks the tactics. Those are his principles and he likes to play on the front foot. Sometimes you have to adapt because you can become too easy to play against. I respect that he went over to the fans. FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Bournemouth Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola to BBC Sport: "I think we had very clear chances to kill the game and didn't take them. Luckily for us we could finish the job. "I didn't like the first half. We competed well but weren't playing fluently. We improved in the second half - we were more a threat in behind. "Today he [Dean Huijsen] showed what we know he has, a good level on the ball, a strong personality. "We have good numbers offensively and defensively. I hope we can continue with this discipline and chance creation from set-pieces. "The position we're in now doesn't matter. We're happy with 21 points. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Bournemouth Bournemouth captain Adam Smith speaking to Amazon Prime: "At home we are a force, even away from home, we press high and we don't care about who the opponent is. Here the crowd gets behind us and our mentality is top. "It was frustrating that we had a few good chances, especially at the end, and didn't score. Teams like this you have to finish them off. Credit to the defenders though who did fantastically at the other end and it was another great win. "We have got so many exciting players. The club has done so well in recruiting big talents and we have so many options to come off the bench too. The club is moving forward for sure, we have a new training ground coming, the owner wants to build a new stadium as well. We just need to keep building forward. "The sky is the limit, for sure. The owner wants to do big things, we have got a great manager as well, it is only positive things going forward. "After we beat Man City and Arsenal we went to Brentford away and it is teams like that which we struggle with sometimes. We need to get up for those games, especially against the teams in and around us. This league is so tough and it is only getting better, which is scary. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Only Arsenal (eight) and Aston Villa (seven) have scored more Premier League goals assisted via crosses this season than Bournemouth (six). Only Wolves (seven) and Everton (six) have conceded more such goals in the competition this term than Tottenham (five). FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Bournemouth Bournemouth midfielder Tyler Adams: "It was a huge performance from us. We knew the game would demand a lot. We had to suffer at times but we came out on top and it's huge. "A good run of games for me so far. We have a great team, a great manager who is easing me back into it. "We won a lot of big games but we could have done better in a lot of other games we could have won. "We have to stay steady, continue building momentum. We're getting there. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Tottenham Hotspur Spurs defender Destiny Udogie: "We came here to win and it didn't go that way. We have to stay together and focus on the next game. "They played their game. It was a tough game. "Big disappointment to concede a goal like this. "It's not the best time for us with injuries but as a group we have to stick together. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Bournemouth Player of the match Dean Huijsen speaking to Amazon Prime: "We know it is difficult to come here. We know we make it difficult for the big teams, and the others as well really. It is a reall exciting win. "I think every little boy dreams of playing in the Premier League and I am so happy to be playing in it and to have scored my first goal. It is definitely a special memory. A goosebumps moment. "It is a special thing to be Bournemouth's youngest Premier League scorer and I hope to stay in the team now and carry on playing. " "[The goal] is all down to our trainer. We have scored a few set piece goals this season because of him. It was my job to finish it and I did, so that was great. We will work on that [scoring more goals], but as a team it was great. A good performance and a good win. "We know Tottenham is also a very physical team so I think it was a great match up and a great match to watch for the fans watching at home and in the stadium. "First of all we need to avoid relegation but I think we have a bit more in us. Who knows. Maybe we can get a Conference League place or something if we keep working and pushing like this. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Les Ferdinand Former Tottenham striker on Amazon Prime Every time Bournemouth went forward, they looked like scoring. Tottenham didn't. There was no urgency, no physicality, didn't win any 50-50 tackles. We didn't know what Spurs would turn up and it wasn't this one the fans wanted. FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou told BBC Sport: "We started well and conceded a really poor goal. It's a difficult place to come when giving the opposition the opportunity to play in the manner they want. "It's disappointing. It's something we've done consistently and we always pay the price for it. "We started the second half with more conviction. Always be a tough game here. Don't want to give the opposition a leg up. We've done that in other games this year and paid the price. "It comes down to us as a collective being a lot more determined to control a game of football and not let the opposition take control. " FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham "Not good enough, " is Ange Postecoglou's take. "We make things difficult for ourselves. " We'll bring you his full quotes in a bit. FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Bournemouth have won successive Premier League games for the first time since April, while both their clean sheets in the league this campaign have come in home wins, also beating Arsenal 2-0 in October. FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham Bournemouth had 21 shots, their highest total in a Premier League game this season. Their expected goals was 3. 31, compared to 0. 58 for Spurs. FT: Fulham 3-1 Brighton Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler speaking to Amazon Prime: "The performance is not the result so I think that we have to be honest that it was good enough to win the game. We were punished for easy mistakes and you can make them in football. In the end, we created enough chances to win the game. We didn't get what we deserved today. "It's the same principle every time we build up. We repeat it every day in training. Again, it's football. The players have to find a solution. We have to keep pushing. "I saw it. I think blocking in the box, there are no clear rules. Sometimes the ref gives a foul, sometimes not. There are no clear rules. "We get the points we deserve but today was not the case so we look to Sunday instead. " Alex Iwobi's strike was Fulham's earliest Premier League goal since August 2023 against Arsenal (first minute) and their earliest at home since August 2022 against Brentford (also first minute) Brighton suffered only their third Premier League defeat of the season as two goals from Alex Iwobi, along with an own goal from the unfortunate Matt O'Riley, helped Fulham to victory at a wet and windy Craven Cottage. The game was played in horrendous conditions of heavy rain and strong winds, but there were no excuses for Bart Verbruggen's early mistake to gift the hosts the lead. After only three minutes, Brighton's Dutch keeper, looking to play a short pass to team-mate Carlos Baleba inside the penalty area, saw Alex Iwobi intercept and slide the ball into an unguarded net for his fourth league goal of the season. Fulham had a chance to quickly double their lead when Iwobi looked to be through on goal, only for Igor Julio to come across and cover well. Brighton grabbed a deserved equaliser 11 minutes into the second half. Jan Paul van Hecke played a lofted pass and Joao Pedro, nominated for November's Premier League Player of the Month award, produced a clever touch to set up Baleba to fire low past Bernd Leno from 20 yards out. It was a lovely goal, followed by a special celebration as Baleba showed his gymnastics skills with an acrobatic somersault, although this was not the springboard for Brighton to get what would have been their seventh win of the season. Fulham retook the lead in fortunate circumstances as Andreas Pereira's 79th-minute corner from the left struck O'Riley and bounced into his own net. Iwobi then sealed victory with a powerful 87th-minute strike for his second goal of the match to ensure Fulham claimed the three points and moved up to sixth spot - a point behind their fifth-placed visitors. Follow live text and radio commentary of Thursday's Premier League games This video can not be played Fulham 3-1 Brighton: Fabian Hurzeler upset by blocking on Lewis Dunk Brighton knew a two-goal victory would have taken them fourth in the Premier League table and back above Manchester City. The Seagulls had manager Fabian Hurzeler sitting in the media seats at the back of the main stand as he served a one-game suspension following his third yellow card of the season in the 1-1 draw against Southampton last Friday. Although horrified by his side's start, he would have been happier with how they performed in the rest of the first half. Baleba fired over with a shot on the turn and Joao Pedro twice had opportunities, only to see Bernd Leno save the Brazil forward's first effort and then for Calvin Bassey to make a vital block. With six-goal top scorer Danny Welbeck missing because of a minor injury, Simon Adingra was one of four changes for the Brighton side and he should have levelled with a couple of opportunities. He curled one strike over the crossbar and was then found eight yards out by Kaoru Mitoma's pull-back, only to see Leno make an excellent reaction stop. Once they did equalise, Brighton looked to gain their first win over Fulham in the Premier League era, only to be denied by two more goals for the hosts in the final 11 minutes. It was a welcome lift for Marco Silva's men before a tough run against the top three, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea, in their next four matches. They may have to do without on-loan Reiss Nelson after he pulled up with a left hamstring injury and was immediately substituted, although he would have missed Sunday's game against his parent club Arsenal anyway. This video can not be played Fulham 3-1 Brighton: 'Big victory' for Cottagers says Marco Silva Have your say on Fulham's performance What did you think of Brighton's display? After the opportunity to rate players has closed, the score displayed represents the average from all the submissions by BBC Sport users. Comments can not be loaded To load Comments you need to enable Java Script in your browser Last Updated 5th December 2024 at 22: 07 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Manager: Marco Silva Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Jonas Scheuermann Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1 Manager: Marco Silva Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Jonas Scheuermann Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1 Premier League All competitions All competitions All competitions Fulham are unbeaten in all eight of their Premier League games against Brighton (W4 D4). It’s the joint-most they’ve faced a side without ever losing (along with Norwich) and the most the Seagulls have faced a side without ever winning in the competition. Having won three consecutive Championship away games against Fulham between 2014 and 2017, Brighton have failed to win any of their last league visits to Craven Cottage (D1 L3, all in the Premier League). Brighton have won none of their last nine Premier League away games against London clubs (D4 L5), last having a longer run without a league win in the capital between 1961 and 1967 (10). Fulham won their first four midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Premier League games following their return to the division in 2022 but have since won just one of their last six (D1 L4). Brighton haven’t won any of their last six midweek (Tues, Weds, Thurs) Premier League away games (D3 L3) since a 2-0 win at Bournemouth in April 2023. Fulham have conceded in each of their last 10 Premier League home games, shipping 20 goals in total in this run. Only twice have they conceded in 11 consecutively at home in the competition, doing so between March 2021/October 2022 and April 2014/December 2018. Brighton have won three of their six Premier League away games so far this season (D1 L2), just one fewer than they managed in the whole of the 2023-24 campaign (W4 D6 L9). Fulham have both scored and conceded in all six of their Premier League home games this season – in their league history, only in 1950-51 have they had a longer such run from the start of a campaign (7). Fulham’s Harry Wilson has been involved in four goals in his last four Premier League appearances against Brighton (2 goals, 2 assists), scoring and assisting in a 3-0 win in this exact fixture last season. Kaoru Mitoma has scored in both of Brighton’s last two league games, scoring more goals in those matches (2) than his previous 24 Premier League appearances combined (1). The Japan winger is looking to score in three successive matches in the competition for the first time. © 2024 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.