Burnley vs Bournemouth LIVE: What time is it, what channel is it on, where can I watch it, odds and more
A look ahead to the game at Turf Moor
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Your support makes all the difference.Burnley’s remarkable season will conclude this weekend and Sean Dyche’s side will play European football next season. Any notion of usurping Arsenal was quashed by last weekend’s five-nil defeat, and they host Bournemouth entrenched in seventh position.
Bournemouth are one of four teams on 41 points, with a top-half finish eminently possible with victory at Turf Moor. Eddie Howe’s men head north with Premier League safety very much secured, and with little to play for but pride.
There is the subtext of watching perhaps England’s two most highly rated managers do battle. To some extent contrasting in style, Howe was Dyche’s predecessor at Turf Moor and both will be looking to end their seasons in strong fashion.
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Preview
What time does it start?
Burnley vs Bournemouth kicks off at 3pm.
Where can I watch it?
Highlights from the game can be seen on Match of the Day, on BBC1 from 10.30pm on Sunday.
It’s a big game for…
Junior Stanislas will face his former club. The West Ham academy graduate played 93 times for Burnley, and has flourished with Bournemouth since joining the South Coast club in 2014.
Best Stat
3,330 – Jack Cork has played every minute of Burnley’s Premier League season thus far, one of just five outfield players to do so (Dunk, Zanka, Maguire, Mawson).
Remember when…
The pair played out a 1-1 draw in the Championship in 2014.
Player to watch…
It has been a breakout season for James Tarkowski. Consistently solid alongside Ben Mee in the strong Burnley defence, Tarkowski will be hoping for good news when the World Cup squad is announced on Wednesday.
Past-three meetings…
Bournemouth 1 (King) Burnley 2 (Wood, Brady), Premier League, November 2017
Bournemouth 2 (Stanislas, King) Burnley 1 (Vokes), Premier League, May 2017
Burnley 3 (Hendrick, Ward, Boyd) Bournemouth 2 (Afobe, Daniels), Premier League, December 2016
Form Guide
Burnley: WWLDDL
Bournemouth: DDWLLW
Odds
Burnley Win: 11/10
Bournemouth Win: 5/2
Draw: 5/2
Odds provided by 888 Sport
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the final day of the 2017/18 Premier League season.
Harry Latham-Coyle will be with you a couple of hours before kick-off, but in the meantime why not read Miguel Delaney's review of a strange but ultimately fascinating campaign:
Good afternoon all, and welcome to the final day of the 2017-18 Premier League Season. The Independent's live blog will have updates from every game as the season reaches its conclusion. My name is Harry Latham-Coyle and I will be with you throughout the afternoon.
We are a little under an hour away from team news being confirmed for this afternoon's ten games. Let's run down what is still to play for today...
The battle for fourth place is still on, but Liverpool are certainly in the driving seat. Chelsea could only manage a draw with Huddersfield in the week, leaving them two points behind Liverpool and with an insurmountable difference in goal difference. Chelsea must beat Newcastle at St James' Park and hope Brighton can shock Liverpool at Anfield.
It will take something truly astonishing for Swansea to survive. They lost at home to Southampton on Tuesday night, taking their opponents three points clear and with a far-superior goal difference. A ten-goal swing is needed, and Swansea haven't scored in their last four games. However...
Swansea play relegated Stoke, who have nothing to play for. And former manager Mark Hughes is now in charge of Southampton. Could Stoke roll over?
Southampton host Manchester City, about the only team in the country one could envisage scoring more than five, particularly as they chase the victory that would take them to 100 points for the season. It would be a truly extraordinary escape for Swansea, but anything can happen in football. 4-0 at the Liberty Stadium, 0-6 at St Mary's would send Southampton down. Surely not...
There is still the battle for the Golden Boot to sort out, too. Mohamed Salah has 31 goals and Harry Kane 28 heading into this afternoon. Kane loves a late-season hat-trick, and although Salah is expected to start for Liverpool, he may not play the full game with the Champions League Final just a couple of weeks away. It is again unlikely, but we've seen odd things occur on the final day before.
The top four assist-makers in this season's Premier League all ply their trade at the Etihad, and one of Kevin De Bruyne and Leroy Sane will be the assist king this season. Sane drew level with his teammate against Brighton on Wednesday with a hat-trick of assists, taking him to 15 on the season. De Bruyne did not play in that game. Either, or both, could notch at least a couple more today.
Arsenal, and perhaps the Premier League, will bid farewell to Arsene Wenger today. His side are at the John Smith's Stadium to meet Huddersfield, who celebrated wildly on Wednesday after the draw at Stamford Bridge that secured survival. An entertaining Arsenal win would be a fitting conclusion to a remarkable career at the club for one of the Premier League's greatest managers.
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