Bournemouth’s O’Neil fumes as Zouma and Benrahma strike for West Ham | Premier League
If West Ham are steadily transferring on up then Bournemouth could also be regressing to their imply. Gary O’Neil ended the sport wagging his fingers within the path of the referee, David Coote, and repeatedly railed in opposition to the choices of VAR Mike Dean however the higher Premier League expertise and squad depth had informed. The VAR controversy this time was over Thilo Kehrer’s handball within the buildup to Kurt Zouma’s opening objective and a handball by Jordan Zemura that led to Saïd Benrahma’s late, decisive penalty. Bournemouth had additionally escaped what appeared a plum purple card for Jefferson Lerma’s excessive lunge on Gianluca Scamacca. “Since I’ve been right here there’s been 10 critical VAR checks and none have gone our method,” mentioned O’Neil, talking like an embittered outdated hand moderately than somebody eight video games into his fledgling managerial profession. Lerma’s crimes went unmentioned and a tenure as interim supervisor that has taken in three British prime ministers and two monarchs is getting into its first hunch. “It’s going to be robust for a newly promoted workforce within the Premier League in opposition to good opposition,” he admitted. Defeat on the London Stadium,…