EPL: Semenyo brace fires Bournemouth past Fulham to go second

Antoine Semenyo scored doubly arsenic Bournemouth moved up to 2nd successful the Premier League with 3 precocious goals to bushed Fulham 3-1 connected Friday.

The Cherries were heading to their archetypal league decision since losing to Liverpool connected the opening nighttime of the play erstwhile Ryan Sessegnon enactment the visitors successful beforehand connected 70 minutes.

However, Semenyo’s superb idiosyncratic tally and decorativeness kickstarted the comeback.

Justin Kluivert blasted into the apical country earlier Semenyo completed the turnaround connected the counter-attack heavy into stoppage time.

Andoni Iraola’s men closed to wrong 1 constituent of leaders Liverpool, who question to Chelsea connected Sunday.

Bournemouth’s commencement is adjacent much awesome fixed a fig of their amended performers past play were prized distant for large fees during the summertime transportation window.

Defenders Dean Huijsen, Milos Kerkez and Illia Zabarnyi departed for Real Madrid, Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain respectively.

“It’s a large feeling,” said Semenyo connected sitting 2nd successful the table.

“We mislaid truthful galore important players for us, but the commencement to the play has been large and it’s a large situation to beryllium a portion of.”

– Sparked into beingness –

At the Vitality Stadium, neither broadside was susceptible of playing flowing shot successful atrocious upwind conditions arsenic Storm Amy battered the United Kingdom with dense rainfall and ferocious winds.

But the crippled came to beingness successful the last 20 minutes aft Sessegnon exchanged a slick one-two with Samuel Chukwueze earlier firing precocious past Djordje Petrovic.

The pb lasted lone 8 minutes arsenic the in-form Semenyo burst past Timothy Castagne to scope the by-line and past produced an inch-perfect decorativeness done the legs of goalkeeper Bernd Leno.

Semenyo was besides credited with the assistance for the second, but Kluivert did each the hard enactment with a stunning onslaught from distance.

The Dutch planetary has mostly been utilized arsenic a substitute by Iraola astatine the commencement of the run contempt scoring 13 goals past season.

But Kluivert showed his prime arsenic helium collected possession from Semenyo conscionable wrong the Fulham fractional and strode guardant earlier unleashing a dipping thrust into the apical corner.

In their quest for an equaliser, Fulham were caught abbreviated astatine the backmost successful stoppage time.

Ben Gannon-Doak broke wide from a Fulham country and kept his composure to hold for enactment earlier supplying Semenyo to people his sixth extremity successful 7 Premier League games this season.

Defeat leaves Fulham inactive successful 11th with 8 points from their opening 7 games.

“It’s precise pugnacious for america the mode we lost,” said Fulham brag Marco Silva.

“The crippled was wholly nether power astatine 1-0.”

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