The Vitality Stadium encounter comes before a huge Europa League semi-final first leg at Athletic Club next Thursday, and our head coach will be assessing his options.<\/p>\n
However, he has stressed how important it is to get a win under our belts before heading to Bilbao, following the disappointing home reverse to Wolves last time out, and says he will select the best possible XI<\/p>\n
“We need to have that feeling that every game is here is important,” he said. “And we have to win every game, because that is a feeling that’s really important – not to lose. <\/p>\n
“Of course, you can see the context. But I think we are going to face this game with the best team, because we had a full week to prepare, some of the players did not play against Wolverhampton, so sometimes, if you recover so much of the players, it is a bad thing. <\/p>\n
“So I will try to manage everything to win this game and to prepare for the next one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vitality Stadium encounter comes before a huge Europa League semi-final first leg at Athletic Club next Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[28546,28547,748,11491,393,1592,4884,18,2465,12237,12,99,20,11385,16,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-53510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-2025_04_27_vitality_stadium_bournemouth","9":"tag-amad","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-diogo-dalot","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-first-team","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-like","16":"tag-manchester","17":"tag-matthijs-de-ligt","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-ruben-amorim","20":"tag-search","21":"tag-team-news","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114407300563916804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}