Bournemouth after five gameweeks
Bournemouth finished sixth in 2025/26 and are in the Europa League for the first time. Andoni Iraola then left for Liverpool, Antoine Semenyo was sold to Manchester City, and Marco Rose took over in the summer.
After five games they are seventeenth without a win: a 2-1 defeat at Manchester City, draws with Everton, Newcastle and Brentford, and a 1-0 home defeat to Liverpool. Six scored, eight conceded, no clean sheet. Rose’s high-pressing side is scoring enough to keep games level and not yet enough to win them, with Thursday Europa League games now landing between league weekends.
Tavernier is the pick, Evanilson the second
Marcus Tavernier is Bournemouth’s top FPL scorer with three goals, first on corners and direct free kicks, and third on penalties. Alex Scott started the first five games with a goal and two assists, but is now out with a thigh injury and no return date.
Evanilson has started every game up front and has three assists but no goal yet. Eli Junior Kroupi, first in the penalty order, is out with a foot injury until November, and Justin Kluivert, second, is injured with no return date — so Tavernier is the first fit penalty taker.
No Bournemouth defender yet
Bournemouth have not kept a clean sheet in five games. Đorđe Petrović has played every minute in goal and Adrien Truffert and James Hill every minute at the back, but none of them is earning points without the clean sheets. Hold one if you already own him; do not buy one.
Bournemouth’s next five
After the international break Bournemouth play Chelsea (A), Sunderland (H), Manchester United (A), Leeds (H) and Ipswich (A). The FPL difficulty ratings put the two away trips to Chelsea and United at 4 and Ipswich at 2, with Europa League games in between.
One Bournemouth attacker is the right exposure — Tavernier for the set pieces, or Evanilson while Scott is out — and the home games against Sunderland and Leeds are the weeks to have him. The live table on this page carries each player’s price, ownership and flag.