Comments and predictions for Bournemouth vs Bristol City: A fiery start at home
The friendly match between Bournemouth vs Bristol City takes place at 8:00 p.m. on July 19. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Bournemouth vs Bristol City team information
New signing Adrien Truffert made his Bournemouth debut against Hibernian. His compatriot Eli Junior Kroupi – who arrived in January and spent the second half of last season on loan at Lorient – also made his debut for the Cherries and is likely to feature again against Bristol City.
Goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic – a £25m signing from Chelsea completed on Wednesday – could feature this weekend, alongside the likes of Evanilson, Justin Kluivert, Lewis Cook, Marcos Senesi and veteran goalkeeper Neto, who returns from loan at Arsenal.
Striker Antoine Semenyo, who signed a new five-year contract last month, is likely to face his former club – where he made over 100 appearances before moving to Bournemouth for £10m in January 2023.
As for Bristol City, goalkeeper Max O'Leary did not participate in the training trip to Algarve due to being treated for an ankle injury in Bristol.
Joe Williams (ankle) and Luke McNally (knee) are also injured, but are expected to continue their recovery in Portugal. Max Bird, meanwhile, will train individually after picking up a calf injury.
Emil Riis, Adam Randell, Joe Lumley and Yu Hirakawa all joined Bristol City on permanent transfers this summer – with Hirakawa having spent last season on loan – and all four are available for action this weekend.
Latest predicted lineup for Bournemouth vs Bristol City
Bournemouth:
Neto; Smith, Hill, Senesi, Truffert; Cook, Billing; Brooks, Kluivert, Semenyo; Evanilson
Bristol City:
Lumley; McCrorie, Dickie, Vyner, Pring; Randall, Knight; Yu, Twine, Mehmiti; Riis
Latest football commentary on Bournemouth vs Bristol City
Bournemouth had a successful 2024–25 Premier League season beyond expectations, earning 56 points – the highest number in the club's history – and winning 15 out of 38 matches, thereby finishing in 9th place, the team's best performance in the English top flight.
However, the Cherries have run out of steam towards the end of the season and are no longer in contention for a European spot. Manager Andoni Iraola is aiming to build a squad capable of competing in the top seven in 2025-26, although he will be without Dean Huijsen and Milos Kerkez – two players who were sold earlier in the summer.
Bournemouth kicked off their pre-season with a 2-1 win over Scottish club Hibernian in a behind-closed-doors friendly at their training ground, with Philip Billing and Romain Faivre on target.
The team, who have beaten Bristol City in all four of their previous competitive encounters, will continue their journey with a friendly against The Robins on Saturday, before heading to the US for the Premier League Summer Series against Everton, Manchester United and West Ham United.
Coach Iraola and his players will then return to their home ground Vitality to host Real Sociedad (La Liga) in their final friendly, before travelling to Anfield to meet reigning champions Liverpool in the opening match of the 2025–26 Premier League on August 15.
Bristol City had a promising 2024–25 season, but it ended badly as the team finished sixth in the Championship – their highest position in a decade – before being eliminated from the play-off semi-finals by Sheffield United 0-6 on aggregate.
Bristol City then parted company with manager Liam Manning – who moved to manage his hometown club Norwich City – and appointed Gerhard Struber, former manager of Barnsley, Red Bull Salzburg and FC Köln, on a three-year contract.
Struber admits he is “not a dreamer”, but the 48-year-old arrives at Ashton Gate with big expectations, believing his new team is “ready for the next step”. The club have signed four new players this summer.
Bristol City's first team have completed a week-long pre-season training camp in Portugal, ending with a behind-closed-doors friendly against a local side.
Following the trip to Bournemouth on Saturday, the team will continue with friendlies against Newport County, Cheltenham Town, Plymouth Argyle and Real Valladolid, before beginning their 2025–26 Championship journey with a rematch against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane on 9 August.
Latest Bournemouth vs Bristol City score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Bournemouth vs Bristol Cityas follows:
- Sportsmole:Bournemouth 2-0 Bristol City
- WhoScore:Bournemouth 3-1 Bristol City
- Our newspaper predicts:Bournemouth 3-1 Bristol City
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