This is a long Premier League season with a long finishing straight. It was always going to test squads to the limit and throw up some unlikely heroes...
Making the step up from the Championship with Blackburn to the Premier League with Bournemouth was always likely to be a tough ask for Rothwell even before a badly-timed injury setback in pre-season.
“I remember having a sit-down chat with him maybe six weeks ago and you’ve seen a real change in the way he goes about things,” Gary O’Neil told the Daily Echo last month. Can’t argue with the numbers, though. From the bittiest bit-parter, Rothwell has now played more than 45 minutes in nine of Bournemouth’s last 15 games. In those nine games Bournemouth have six wins, a draw and only two defeats .
Form was the starting point, though. Steele’s opportunity came when his own eye-catching displays in the FA Cup coincided with some patchy efforts from Sanchez. And Steele – who until a couple of months ago had a solitary Premier League appearance to show for his five years on the south coast – has taken that chance quite wonderfully.
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