Bournemouth boss O'Neil tells players: Ignore what relegation rivals are doing

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15 Apr 2023 • 10:14 PM MYT
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Bournemouth boss Gary O'Neil has told his players to ignore their relegation rivals and focus on themselves.

Bournemouth have pulled themselves out of the dropzone and up to 15th on the table after victories over Leicester and Fulham in recent weeks.

I don't pay too much attention to the movement between places because one goal here or there can change an awful lot at the moment," said the former midfielder.

We have a real focus on ourselves and, as we've seen over the past few weeks, if we take care of ourselves, the rest of it shouldn't matter to us too much.

There are nine teams involved still, Crystal Palace have had two good results, so maybe they start to take themselves out of that now.

But we'll be working very hard over the next six or seven weeks to get ourselves out of it as quickly as we can."

Next up is Tottenham and O'Neil also said: "Everybody my team, the staff, the players are giving absolutely everything. We're working our socks off.

The group, at the moment, deserves that praise that it gets but I'm very conscious we've achieved nothing at this moment.

Thirty points won't be enough to keep us up, so we need to keep pushing."