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We asked for your thoughts after Sunday's Premier League game between Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest.

Here are some of your comments:

Bournemouth fans

Steve: We absolutely, utterly deserve to be second. We are excellent, exciting and also very strong throughout the whole team.

Stewart: It's quite simple, really - the performance has always been very good. Keep this team together until the end of the season, and that includes the coach, and we will play in Europe.

Andrew: We are truly living in a parallel universe - from minus 17 points to second place in the Premier League. This Iraola team really doesn't know its place.

Nottingham Forest fans

Terry: This just goes to show that you can't buy a good team unless you know what you're doing. Forest are a Championship team, not Premier League, and will be relegated no matter how much they spend or how many managers they have.

Steve B: It was always going to be tough after the high of Porto. We were dire on set pieces and lacked fight, especially in the first half. However, we have 29 games left, 87 points up for grabs. Confident that Dyche will get us better organised and the results will come.

Neil: Lacked any urgency, even on rare attacking positions and always chose the wrong option. Slow sideways and backwards passes all game. No runners into space and lost every 50/50 challenge. Didn't look like they wanted to win. We are in big, big trouble.

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Set against the backdrop of Ange Postecoglou's disastrous reign, the atmosphere at the City Ground prior to Nottingham Forest's Europa League win over Porto felt like a breath of fresh air as the home fans showed their support for new boss Sean Dyche.

Sunday's defeat at Bournemouth, however, only served to underline the magnitude of the task facing the 54-year-old at Forest - although better teams will come unstuck at Vitality Stadium this season.

The visitors struggled to match the Cherries' trademark intensity in the first half, managing only one touch inside the Bournemouth half and only one shot on target - through full-back Neco Williams.

Forest were rightly frustrated at the officials' decision not to award a goal-kick in the build-up to Bournemouth's opener, but goalkeeper Matz Sels will have to take his share of the blame for Marcus Tavernier's goal directly from a corner, despite being nudged by Tyler Adams as the ball sailed over his head.

Dyche responded to his team's insipid first-half display by replacing Douglas Luiz, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Igor Jesus with Ryan Yates, Omari Hutchinson and Taiwo Awoniyi at the interval - and the visitors certainly started the second period with greater urgency.

But Morgan Gibbs-White's late effort was by far their best opportunity of the contest, leaving Dyche with plenty to ponder before next weekend's game at home to in-form Manchester United.

Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche spoke to BBC Match of the Day after his side's defeat away at Bournemouth: "We came to a side who are statistically number one in the league, physically, and they showed it. Their desire, their endeavour to just do the hard yards. It's a lack of understanding from our group but I don't think they can carry it out yet so we've got a lot of work to do on that side of things, just physically, I spoke to the players about that when I got in.

"But they've been terrific, I must make it clear, a bad result today, bad performance particularly [in the] first half so there's no denying that but they have been excellent. They've absorbed it, they've taken it on, they did so well on Thursday [against Porto] but the first half they were miles short.

"There's a lot of work to be done. I didn't come into this job naively, the league table does tell a story so I'm never thinking there wasn't work to be done but it showed particularly in the first half today."

On how Bournemouth's first goal from a corner should have been a goal kick: "[If I show frustration] then I get booked, and you're scratching your head because they wonder why you're getting annoyed. We can see it from miles away. The linesperson gives it as a goal kick, that was clear, the referee overrules him from a wrong position. That is really frustrating."

Did you know?

• Nottingham Forest have now gone 448 minutes of Premier League action without a goal, since Neco Williams netted after two minutes against Burnley at the end of September. It's also the first time they have gone four consecutive Premier League matches without a goal since November 1994 (run of five).

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Bournemouth make one change to side who drew to Crystal Palace last weekend as boss Andoni Iraola brings in Veljko Milosavljevic for his second league start and drops Bafode Diakite to the bench.

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic, Jimenez, Milosavljevic, Senesi, Truffert, Scott, Adams, Tavernier, Kluivert, Semenyo, Kroupi

Subs: Adli, Brooks, Christie, Cook, Dennis, Diakite, Gannon-Doak, Soler, Unal

Sean Dyche also makes one change to the Nottingham Forest team that started Thursday's 2-0 Europa League victory over Porto.

Nicolo Savona, a half-time substitute against the Portuguese side, replaces the injured Oleksandr Zinchenko at left-back, while striker Chris Wood also misses the game with a knee problem.

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Williams, Milenkovic, Murillo, Savona, Douglas Luiz, Anderson, Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Jesus

Subs: Awoniyi, Dominguez, Hutchinson, Kalimuendo, Victor, Cunha, Morato, Sangare, Yates

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Sean Dyche is a sensible appointment by Nottingham Forest but the way his predecessor Ange Postecoglou was treated by their fans makes me think he is better off out of there.

Dyche is more of a Nuno Espirito Santo figure than an Ange in terms of how he will set his side up, but Forest's aim now is to stay in the Premier League and Dyche has already shown he can keep teams up.

This is a tough start for him, though. Bournemouth should have beaten Crystal Palace last week but they are still third and are flying at the moment.

The Cherries always create chances, especially at home, and I don't feel as if Forest will be able to hold out.

Sutton's prediction: 1-0

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It could not have gone much better for Sean Dyche in his first game in charge of Nottingham Forest - a 2-0 win over Porto in the Europa League and a first clean sheet in 21 matches.

In the latest episode of Shut Up And Show More Football, BBC Radio Nottingham's Colin Fray and David Jackson reflected back on a memorable European night and what Dyche's arrival could mean for Forest going forward.

Fray said: "If he was going to plan out a first game, he'd have an unbeaten team on top of the Portuguese league on a European night under the lights at City Ground and beat them, to inflict their first defeat of the season, get a couple of penalties on the way, have a bit of drama with VAR and keep a clean sheet for the first time in 21 matches.

"It panned out perfectly for him."

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