Cherries have picked up four wins in their last eight Premier League outings, taking them to 30 points from 30 top-flight games this campaign. Despite frequently being labelled as certs for relegation, Cherries sit above the dotted line, poised in 15th place with eight games to go. However, O’Neil and his charges are well aware that they are not safe just yet.
Gary O’Neil shared: “We’ve had a decent little run, I think, but we haven’t achieved anything yet. There’s probably still a few people that think we could still go down to the Championship, so there’s still an awful lot of work to be done from this moment. We have eight very big games, starting with the one tomorrow against another very good side. The points tally over the last eight has been decent, especially considering the teams that we had to play in there – Brighton, Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, some real tough fixtures in there. So to put the points on the board that we have has been good, but still an awful lot of work that needs to be done from this point on.
Asked what has caused Cherries’ uptick in form,
Gary O’Neil responded: “We’ve kept working. We haven’t really changed too much, as in the way we work or the way we play. We haven’t changed anything, actually. We’ve just managed to improve it. sWe’ve had a lot of players come back from injury and we’ve signed a few, so the group is stronger, there’s a little bit more competition for places, we have more depth. So in that spell after the World Cup, we were short. We’re not so short at the moment, so we’ve been very competitive in most of our last few matches and we are looking to do the same again tomorrow.”
