Cherries prepare to host Spurs under the lights

AFC Bournemouth will host Tottenham Hotspur at the Vitality Stadium on Thursday evening.

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Andoni Iraola takes training. Photo Credit: Getty Images

AFC Bournemouth will host Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday evening, under the lights at the Vitality Stadium.

The Cherries go into the game off the back of a 4-2 win against Wolves, and sit 13th in the table.

A win for Bournemouth would see them move ahead of Tottenham, who currently sit in seventh, two points ahead of the Cherries.

Spurs are the Premier League's top goal scorers so far this season, finding the back of the net 28 times.

Bournemouth manager, Andoni Iraola said: "Stats wise they are amazing, (they have) so many threats, especially offensively.

"They’re very good on the press.

“We will need to be at our very best.”

Antoine Semenyo will be available for the game as he returns from suspension, for accumulating five yellow cards.

There will also be a familiar face tomorrow night, as Dominic Solanke will be returning to the Vitality Stadium for the first time since leaving Bournemouth to join Tottenham in August.

He netted 21 times for the Cherries last season and has six goals in 17 games for Spurs so far this campaign, although it is not confirmed if he will play due to illness.

Iraola said: "I prefer that he doesn’t come to play us.

"We have to prepare as though he will play, if he does, we will have to challenge him.”

Bournemouth go into the game having scored ten goals in their last five games.

Iraola said: “We should have scored more goals this season.

"It’s good because we’ve created more, but bad because we have not been clinical enough.”

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