Cherries

IT WILL take a few days for the Cherries to move past the frustration of the late draw against Leeds ahead of the run in to the end of the season.

Their next game is a week on Sunday when they host Crystal Palace, as boss Andoni Iraola believes they have been a little unlucky with the way the schedule has worked out for them.

Wednesday’s game against the Whites was moved forward from this weekend due to their involvement in the FA Cup semifinals, and, should Manchester City reach the cup final, their home game against Pep Guardiola’s side will be moved, too.

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That causes a little disruption heading into the culmination of the season, but Iraola said “it is what it is”.

Andoni Iraola (Image: Richard Crease)

Asked about moving beyond the frustration of the Leeds draw and using that as motivation into the Palace game, Iraola said: “We have 10 days, and we will analyse everything.

“We will need, I think, in this one maybe more than one day, two, three days to clean a little bit what we have in our minds right now.

“I think we've been a little bit unlucky with this cup, with the FA Cup, because we play Leeds that they are playing the semifinal, so we don't have like a normal week.

“It could happen also very possibly against City the same, where you don't have a normal week and you have then 10 days and then you have to play in three days.

“But we knew the schedule and it is what it is.

“It's true that you expect the last five or six games like, okay, we don't play the FA Cup, we play one game every weekend and clean weeks and everything.

“And with this case with Leeds and City, I think it's going to be a lot more different schedules.”