Iraola on Outarra’s injury, captain Smith and the importance of data

Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola has been talking to the media earlier than Saturday’s Premier League sport towards Aston Villa (kick-off 17:30 BST).

Listed here are the important thing strains from his information convention:

• Iraola says that Dango Ouattara is unlikely to function once more this season due to an adductor harm. Ryan Christie, Enes Unal and Luis Sinisterra are nonetheless not able to return to motion.

• No matter what occurs within the final three video games, he courses this as a particular season for the membership: “We have been really good this season, offensively and defensively we are up there with teams who are better than us – it is something to be proud of. Now we have to give the last push to get something tangible. To get big rewards you have to do big things.”

• On Saturday’s opponents: “If we want to make them suffer, we have to play like the big teams do at home [against them] and this is not easy. They have been a little bit better than us [in previous matches against them] but we have been quite competitive. We need to change some things to close the gap.”

• He spoke extremely of membership captain Adam Smith, whose subsequent sport can be his four-hundredth for the Cherries: “You have to be consistently performing very well [to reach 400 matches] and fighting against your team-mates for your position. He wants to train well every day and is someone who is very reliable. He understands his strengths and weaknesses. I think he can still add more games to that amount.”

• On the significance of knowledge in his success on the south coast: “Data is very valuable for me – now we maybe have too much! I like to analyse, we have data from past games and seasons, there are patterns and you see there are reasons behind things. You can’t only focus on data but for the scouting department and us analysing our performance, it is a big help for us.”

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