The odds for home win are quite not as I would like, but as this match has several interesting points here are my thoughts:

Bournemouth have new manager Scott Parker, who has experience of promoting from Championship with Fulham.

Last season Bournemouth ended up sixth and then lost vs Brentford in the promotion play-offs. A top-6 is also an expectation for this season, as also the bookie odds below show.

The strenght of Bournemouth have been the quick transitions, and what happens with Parker will be seen but it is a good base to build on.

A few absentees tonight as cb Mepham and Lerma have suspensions, and neither of Cooks is probably quite fit yet. A few other doubts there too, but as also the coach is new it is hard to tell what his optimal lineup might look like.

West Bromwich did get relegated and returning back on first season down is never an easy task, even if the bookies are “forced” to put them amoung favourites. WBA have a new manager too, Valerien Ismail who did good work at Barnsley is taking over. He is a Marcelo Bielsa copycat and admirer, his teams will run their feet off from the start and some players are always sacrificed to even more work and are planned to be substituted early on. However he was warmly welcomed to WBA by fans, but time will tell. At least he is total opposite of previous manager Sam Allardyce and the change will not be smooth.

WBA have also important pieces missing today as Sam Johnstone (Euros holiday) and their top player Matheus Pereira who was responsible in more than 3rd of WBA goals last season are out. And not only out today, but very likely are ready for a transfer to a better club.

The friendly season was short at both camps and does not give much clue of what is to expect so I choose the neglect those matches completely, even it has to be noted that Bournemouth decided to go for better opponents which I find always a good sign.

The incoming transfers are rather short so far, Emiliano Marcondes and Leif Davis

are most interesting Bournemouth new faces,

Adam Reach, Alex Mowatt and Matt Clarke respectively the most interesting WBA new players. Transfer window naturally still open.

WBA did have such a bad season and they are not used to win, they won only 8 out of last 49 competitive starts and despite the several questionmarks and absentees I like to oppose them today.

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主场获胜的可能性并不像我想的那样，但由于这场比赛有几个有趣的点，这里是我的想法:

伯恩茅斯有了新教练斯科特·帕克，他有从冠军联赛转会到富勒姆的经验。

上个赛季伯恩茅斯排名第六，然后在升级赛中输给了布伦特福德。进入前6也是本赛季的期望，下面的指数也显示了。

伯恩茅斯的力量来自于快速的转换，帕克的表现将会被看到，但这是一个很好的基础。

一些人缺席了今晚的比赛，如cb Mepham和Lerma的停赛，库克可能都还没有完全康复。还有一些其他的疑问，但是因为教练是新教练，所以很难说他的最佳阵容应该是什么样的。

西布罗姆维奇确实被降级了，但在第一个赛季就复出可不是一件容易的事，即使博彩公司“被迫”把他们列为最受欢迎的球队之一。WBA也有了一个新经理，瓦莱里安·伊斯梅尔，他在巴恩斯利做得很好。他是马塞洛·贝尔萨的模仿者和崇拜者，他的球队会从一开始就开始奔跑，一些球员总是为了更多的工作而牺牲，并计划在早期被替换。然而，他在WBA受到了球迷们的热烈欢迎，但时间会证明一切。至少他和前教练阿勒代斯完全相反，这个变化不会一帆风顺。

WBA今天也有重要的缺阵，因为山姆·约翰斯通(欧洲杯假期)和上赛季为WBA贡献超过三分之一进球的顶级球员马特奥斯·佩雷拉缺阵了。他不仅今天离开了，而且很可能已经准备好转会到更好的俱乐部。

这两个阵营的友谊赛都很短，也没有给我太多的线索去期待什么，所以我选择完全忽略这两场比赛，甚至伯恩茅斯决定去找更好的对手，我认为这是一个很好的迹象。

到目前为止，即将转会的球员还很短，包括埃米利亚诺·马孔德斯和莱夫·戴维斯是伯恩茅斯最有趣的新面孔。

Adam Reach, Alex Mowatt和Matt Clarke分别是西布朗最有趣的新球员。转会窗口自然还是打开的。

WBA确实有一个很糟糕的赛季，他们不习惯赢球，他们在过去49场比赛中只赢了8场，尽管有一些问题和缺席，我今天还是想和他们对抗。

预测比分2:0。