Burnley name starting line-up for big Bournemouth clash as star man misses out through illness
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The striker, Burnley’s top goalscorer this season with three, only signed a new long-term contract on Thursday.
However, the 23-year-old is now absent from Burnley’s squad altogether, with Kompany confirming in his pre-match interview that his striker is ill.
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Hide AdVincent Kompany makes five changes in total from last weekend’s miserable 3-0 defeat to Brentford.
Vitinho comes in for the suspended Connor Roberts, who misses one game after being sent off for two bookable offences against the Bees.
Elsewhere, Josh Brownhill, Anass Zaroury and Luca Koleosho also come into the side, as does Johann Gudmundsson who makes his return from injury.
For Zaroury it’s the winger’s first league start of the season.
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Hide AdSander Berge, Mike Tresor and Wilson Odobert are the three to drop out alongside Roberts and Foster.
Hjalmar Ekdal, Jordan Beyer, Manuel Benson and Michael Obafemi all remain sidelined.
As for Bournemouth, they’ve made four changes from their 2-1 defeat to Wolves last week. One player to drop out is first choice keeper Neto, who misses out through injury.
The Cherries sit one point and one positive below the Clarets in the league table having yet to claim their first win of the season.
TEAMS
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Hide AdBournemouth: Radu, Aarons, Kelly, Mepham, Zabarnyi, Billing, Tavernier, Scott, Christie, Semenyo, Solanke
Subs: Travers, Kerkez, Brooks, Rothwell, Ouattara, Smith, Sinisterra, Kluivert, Moore
Burnley: Trafford, Vitinho, O’Shea, Al-Dakhil, Taylor, Cullen, Brownhill, Gudmundsson, Koleosho, Zaroury, Amdouni
Subs: Muric, Delcroix, Cork, Berge, Bruun Larsen, Tresor, Odobert, Redmond, Rodriguez
Referee: Samuel Barrott