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Bournemouth won 2-1 at Ipswich on Sunday 8 November, their fifth win in five matches across all competitions. The first of the five was a 3-0 win at Manchester United on 25 October. A 3-0 Carabao Cup win over Aston Villa followed on 28 October, then a 2-0 home win over Leeds on 31 October and a 3-1 Europa League win at Sparta Prague on 5 November. Bournemouth are 7th on 15 points. Evanilson leads the scoring with seven goals and five assists in all competitions. The next test is Nottingham Forest at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday 21 November at 10:00 am ET, after the international break. The run has now covered the Premier League, the Carabao Cup and the Europa League, and a home game is the next chance to extend it.
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Nine goals scored, none conceded — that three-game run at the end of October is the condition Leeds United now walk into at Vitality Stadium on Saturday.
The wins over AC Milan, Manchester United at Old Trafford, and Aston Villa arrived across eight days and three competitions, which is a brutal fixture slate that Bournemouth navigated without conceding once; the 3-0 home win over AC Milan, the 3-0 away win over Manchester United, and the 3-0 home win over Aston Villa each returned the same scoreline, a coincidence that flatters the pattern but does not explain it away. On balance, The Playbook expects Bournemouth to win this one — call it a fourth clean sheet in four, though Leeds' five draws in eight Premier League games suggest they are a side that denies opponents more reliably than they press for a result themselves. Leeds arrive at 11 points from eight games, six places and two points above a Bournemouth side that sits on 9 from 8, and that gap is exactly the kind of distance the table can close in a single home result. Marcus Tavernier's six goals across all competitions and Evanilson's four goals and four assists represent the weight of Bournemouth's attacking production, and the selection decision that will shape Saturday is whether that combination can find the space Leeds' compact approach — five draws and one loss — tends to compress. Per AFC Bournemouth, Marco Rose has given a recent update on Junior Kroupi, though the club's statement did not confirm his availability for Saturday; if he is absent, the front-line load falls more squarely on Evanilson and Rayan, who has four goals in 13 appearances. The Carabao Cup draw, reported by Yahoo Sports, confirmed the next stage of that competition, which is now part of the congestion Bournemouth are managing — but Saturday's Premier League fixture is the more immediate test of whether nine goals in eight days reflects a genuine shift in this side's shape, or a sequence that the calendar made possible rather than the squad.
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