Bournemouth 2 Sheffield Wednesday 0: Megson blasts Owls for gifting victory on a plate to Cherries

SHEFFIELD Wednesday manager Gary Megson is demanding an instant response at Bury tomorrow night following defeat at Dean Court.

Megson said: “I’m disappointed because we’ve now turned what would have been a really good start into an average start.

“Now we have to go to Bury and get a result before we play Notts County at Hillsborough.

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“I thought we started the game well, had more the of ball, and looked the most dangerous. But we didn’t take the chances we created and the first goal is crucial in any game.

“We gifted Bournemouth their first goal with marking that was not like us and then we gifted them their second goal when we switched off and rolled the ball out of play and they scored after the resulting throw-in.

“We brought Chris Lines on in the second half because he is capable of getting a goal and I thought he did well.”

The Owls were without new signing Chris O’Grady because of his heel injury and the Cherries star player Danny Ings was unexpectedly absent and was rumoured to be on his way to Burnley to join former manager Eddie Howe.

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He would be the fifth major player to leave the club this summer.

The Owls started with Clinton Morrison and Gary Madine up front.

The breakthrough came in the 38th minute as Bournemouth centre-half Adam Barrett rose above Rob Jones to bullet a header into Nicky Weaver’s bottom left-hand corner from a corner.

The contest was over for the Owls when Bournemouth made it 2-0 in the 84th minute. A ball played in from the right found substitute Harry Arter, who drove a low shot past Weaver from 12 yards.

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Bournemouth: Flahavan, Byrne, Malone, Cooper, Barrett, Pugh, Molesley (Arter 66),Gregory (Baudry 89), Feeney, Taylor (Fletcher 88), Doble. Unused substitutes: Jalal, Purches.

Sheffield Wednesday: Weaver, Buxton, Bennett (O’Connor 80), Batth, Rob Jones, Palmer, Semedo (Otsemobor 75), Prutton, Sedgwick (Lines 58), Madine, Morrison. Unused substitutes: O’Donnell, Reda Johnson.

Referee: M Brown (East Yorkshire).

Man of the match: Adam Barrett.