Antoine Semenyo said goodbye to Bournemouth in style with a last-minute winner against Tottenham to escalate the pressure on Thomas Frank. Semenyo was playing his last game for the Cherries before joining Manchester City but a growing number of Spurs fans want the South coast collapse to be Frank’s final game in charge.
The travelling contingent made their feelings crystal clear towards the Danish manager at full-time as he was met with a chorus of boos as he approached the away end. Bournemouth hadn’t won in 11 games but they moved just one point behind Spurs with the North London club now languishing in 11th place in the Premier League table. Frank transformed Brentford and arrived at Tottenham in the summer with an excellent reputation but Spurs fans have never been fully on board and he’s now under serious pressure.
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Tottenham took an early lead against Bournemouth courtesy of Mathys Tel but the Cherries turned it around to lead 2-1 at the break. Spurs did rally in the second half and equaliser through João Palhinha before the Semenyo sucker-punch in the fifth minute of added time. “It’s very, very difficult,” Frank told Sky Sports post-match. “It’s really painful. The players put in everything. The first half-was fine, we went 1-0 up then lost two goals from second phases at set-pieces, which we need to improve on. I loved the mentality and character in the second and we were completely on top. We got a more than deserved equaliser and we were the team closer to winning it. But to concede a goal five minutes into extra-time is so painful.”