Cherries handed home tie in FA Cup draw

Cherries handed home tie in FA Cup draw

As soon as upon a time, the third-round draw of the FA Cup was one thing to get enthusiastic about for AFC Bournemouth supporters. It was a spherical of the cup that we not often reached and introduced the joy of a possible draw in opposition to one of many golf equipment from the highest two divisions in English Soccer. The romance of the FA Cup was most actually nonetheless alive on the south coast.

Between the flip of the century and 2013, the Cherries loved simply three FA Cup third-round weekends, however have now been ever-present within the final 13 attracts and have truly loved some success in that point reaching the fourth spherical 4 occasions, the fifth spherical twice and the Quarter-Finals as soon as.

Final season was AFC Bournemouth head coach Andoni Iraola’s first style of the oldest membership competitors on this planet and the Cherries reached the fifth spherical, solely to be knocked out by Leicester Metropolis after extra-time. Can AFC Bournemouth take pleasure in a cup run this season? Might they even attain a Wembley Semi-Remaining for the primary time within the golf equipment historical past?

Nicely, the spherical to Wembley begins at house with Championship aspect West Bromwich Albion making the journey all the way down to Dean Courtroom throughout the weekend of the eleventh/twelfth January 2025. The sport is most certainly to be performed on the eleventh as there are some intriguing different ties within the draw so tv protection appears unlikely.

This would be the twenty fourth assembly between the 2 sides and the primary within the FA Cup since 1999.

AFC Bournemouth v West Bromwich Albion

AFCB Win

WBA Win

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tedisking stated…

Appear to recollect the final time we performed West Brom within the cup ( league cup ?), their allocation was behind the south finish objective…. I suppose it will likely be the identical.
They equalised. Whereas they had been nonetheless celebrating, we went straight from kick-off and went forward once more. It’s a beautiful method to silence a crowd. Will settle for a similar once more. To hitch the dialog, click on right here.