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Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "We needed this one. We have been very close in the last games. Football cannot every time go to the other side and today was the perfect moment, also for Antoine [Semenyo].
"To play the way he did, the commitment to help in whatever way until the last second. I think football has been fair and given him a lovely moment."
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Was it Semenyo's last game for Bournemouth? "Unluckily for us, I think it was.
"He has been if not the best, one of the best I have coached. He has improved every single season.
"He has scored 10 goals in half a season and he's not even a number nine. It is not just the numbers but a lot of things - the physicality, the balls in the air and the defensive things.
"He will be a big miss."
Did you know?
Timed at 94 minutes 40 seconds, Semenyo scored Bournemouth's second-latest winning goal in a Premier League match, after Luis Sinisterra against Everton in August 2024 (95:37).
No teenager has scored more goals in Europe's big five leagues this season than Bournemouth's Junior Kroupi (seven - level with Lamine Yamal pf Barcelona), and he is the first to score seven goals in their debut Premier League season since Dele Alli and Kelechi Iheanacho in 2015-16 (both eight).
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