AFC Bournemouth 2-1 Arsenal: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 14 January 2018

Result

AFC Bournemouth 2-1 Arsenal

Premier League · Sunday 14 January 2018, 13:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

AFC Bournemouth · Arsenal · Premier League predictions

AFC Bournemouth 2-1 Arsenal: match report

AFC Bournemouth beat Arsenal 2-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 14 January 2018. The half-time score was 0-0.

Héctor Bellerín opened the scoring in the 52nd minute. AFC Bournemouth's goals came from Callum Wilson (70') and Jordon Ibe (74'). Arsenal scored through Héctor Bellerín (52').

Discipline: AFC Bournemouth received 2 yellow cards; Arsenal received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game AFC Bournemouth were 17th on 21 points from 22 and Arsenal 6th on 39 points from 22. AFC Bournemouth went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Arsenal 6th with 63.

AFC Bournemouth lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Arsenal in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jordon Ibe of AFC Bournemouth (8.2), ahead of Adam Smith (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 AFC Bournemouth wins, 1 draw and 4 for Arsenal.

Going into the match AFC Bournemouth's last five read D-W-D-L-L and Arsenal's D-D-W-D-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Yellow card · Dan GoslingAFC Bournemouth
  • 31'Yellow card · Simon FrancisAFC Bournemouth
  • 52'Goal · Héctor BellerínArsenal · 0-1
  • 56'Yellow card · Granit XhakaArsenal
  • 70'Goal · Callum WilsonAFC Bournemouth · 1-1
  • 71'Yellow card · J. WilshereArsenal
  • 74'Goal · Jordon IbeAFC Bournemouth · 2-1

Head-to-head

5 meetings: AFC Bournemouth 0, draws 1, Arsenal 4.

Team news

AFC Bournemouth line-up (3-4-2-1)

Asmir Begović, Simon Francis, Steve Cook, Nathan Aké, Adam Smith, Lewis Cook, Dan Gosling, Charlie Daniels, Jordon Ibe, Ryan Fraser, Callum Wilson

Arsenal line-up (3-4-2-1)

Petr Čech, Calum Chambers, Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Héctor Bellerín, J. Wilshere, Granit Xhaka, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Alex Iwobi, Danny Welbeck, Alexandre Lacazette