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Mark Douglas’s piece for the i about Bournemouth this week is very interesting reading for Chelsea fans.

We’re playing the Cherries on Tuesday night, in what looks to be an absolute textbook “trap game.”

On the fixture list it looks simple, and you’d hopefully write a “W” next to it. But on a dark Tuesday evening in January, we could easily find ourselves in a tough, tough battle against one of the Premier League’s most in form teams this season.

They’re 7th, but just 3 points behind us in 4th. They play some of the most intense, entertaining, attacking football in the division, and a few of the big teams have come unstuck against them in the last year.

We play them potentially at a good time however – Enes Unal has brutally torn his cruciate ligament this week, the second time in a year that’s happened. Their club record signing Evanilson, who was really finding his feet in the Premier League, has ironically broken his foot.

It remains to be seen how those two blows affect Bournemouth’s confidence – they’re against a Chelsea team with no win in 4, so whoever grabs the momentum from kickoff could really seize control of the pattern of the game. They’re a far better team that those we’ve failed to beat in our last 4, so we should be wary.

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Ilyas Zabarnyi thanks the fans after leading Bournemouth to a win. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

The piece also notes how the South Coast team have built such a fantastic squad. Four players are picked out as in demand from all around the top flight: defender Illia Zabarnyi, left-back Milos Kerkez, forward Antoine Semenyo and centre-back Dean Huijsen.

We’ve seen Chelsea linked extensively to Kerkez, and this piece mentions we are “fans” of Zabarnyi too, good timing considering we are likely looking to sign a central defender at some point.