Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction: Team News and Lineups Preview

With five games left of the Premier League season, the hopes of European football is reaching do-or-die territory for a lot of teams. Matthew O’Regan delivers his Wolves vs Bournemouth prediction, team news, lineups and fixtures preview, with the two sides battling it out in 11th and 13th, with faint hopes of an unlikely European campaign. 

• Wolves vs AFC Bournemouth Tip 1: Dominic Solanke to Score
• Wolves vs AFC Bournemouth Tip 2: Over 3.0 Goal Line
• Wolves vs AFC Bournemouth Tip 3: Over 4.5 Cards

Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction 1: Solanke still chasing Golden Boot

England, Premier League, Wednesday , April 24th, 19:45 (UK)

After only six Premier League goals last season, many would be surprised to see Dom Solanke chasing the Golden Boot this season. The 26-year-old is on 17 goals, just three behind joint top scorers Erling Haaland and Cole Palmer. 

Andoni Iraola’s attacking style of football has suited Solanke, with the Englishman excelling in the final third. 

Solanke is averaging 0.55 goals and xG per 90, as well as 2.94 shots and 1.04 shots on target. In his last two games against Manchester United and Aston Villa, he has scored the opening goal. 

In fact, he scored the opening goal in the 2-1 defeat at the Vitality Stadium when these sides last met. 

With Solanke’s impressive form all season, coupled with the fact that he is chasing an unprecedented golden ball, don’t be surprised to see Dominic Solanke on the scoresheet once again on Wednesday. 

• Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction 1: Dominic Solanke To Score
• Best Odds: 2.60
• Bookmaker: bet365
• Stake: 10/10

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Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction 2: Goals Galore

Despite being tipped by many as an outsider candidate for relegation, Wolverhampton Wanderers have survived comfortably, and at some point in the season, European qualification looked a real possibility. 

While Europe is still plausible, it now seems unlikely, especially given the injuries at the club. Gary O’Neil has transformed a stale Wolves team and has the Molineux faithful believe again.

However, their European dream seems to have stuttered. Five games without a win have seen Wolves five points off eighth place West Ham. 

Games involving Wanderers have been entertaining, with ten of their 16 home games seeing over 2.5 goals. Their games have averaged exactly three goals. 

Bournemouth are a point and two places behind Wednesday’s hosts, so they’ll be looking for a positive result to leapfrog Wolves. 

Andoni Iraola’s side are three games without a win, having thrown away leads against Luton, Manchester United and Aston Villa.

The Cherries have scored 48 and conceded 60 goals, with their games averaging 3.27 goals. This average is higher on the road, with Bournemouth away games averaging 3.68 goals. 

13/16 of their away games have seen three or more goals, including six of their last seven games. 

We should be in for an end-to-end encounter at the Molineux, with both teams thinking they could win this. 

• Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction 2: Over 3.0 Asian Goal Line
• Best Odds: 2.03
• Bookmaker: bet365
• Stake: 8/10

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Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction 3: All Is Not Well With Atwell

Referee Stuart Atwell came in for some serious slack after failing to award Nottingham Forest three stonewall penalties while on VAR duty. 

He has the task of refereeing Wednesday’s encounter. In 21 competitive fixtures this season, Atwell has brandished an average of 4.66 cards. 

Wolves are averaging 2.875 cards per home game, drawing 3.13 cards per home game – the second highest in the league. Four of their last five games have seen at least five cards.

Bournemouth are only drawing 1.75 cards per away game, but are receiving 2.31. The meeting between this side earlier in the season saw a whopping eight yellow cards and a second half Lewis Cook red card. In fact, five of the last six meetings have seen over 4.5 cards. 

• Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction 3: Over 4.5 Cards
• Best Odds: 1.75
• Bookmaker: bet365
• Stake: 10/10

Wolves vs Bournemouth Prediction odds via bet365 as at 00:00 April 22nd 024. Odds may now differ.

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Wolves vs Bournemouth Team News and Possible Lineups: Wolves injury crisis

Gary O’Neil has mentioned his side’s injury crisis numerous times, only having ten fit senior players to start in the 2-0 loss to Arsenal. 

On Wednesday, he will be without five senior players. Commanding centre-half Craig Dawson will miss out with a groin injury. Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Nelson Semedo are injured, as well as wing maestro Pedro Neto and top goalscorer Matheus Cunha. 

Bournemouth are set to be without Chris Mephama, Luis Sinisterra, Marcus Tavernier and Tyler Adams.

Wolves possible starting lineup:
Sa; Bueno, Kilman, Gomes; Doherty, Lemina, Gomes, Ait Nouri; Doyle, Sarabia, Hwang

Bournemouth possible starting lineup:
Neto; Aarons, Zabarnyi, Sensei, Kelly; Cook, Christie; Kerkez, Kluivert, Ouattara, Solanke. 

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The Predicted Wolves vs Bournemouth Premier League Standings by BETSiE

Our in-house predictive model, BETSiE, has had a go at predicting the Premier League standings ahead of the Wolves vs AFC Bournemouth currently 11th and 13th, fixture by utilising the underlying data from the 2023/24 season up until this point.

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Wolves vs Bournemouth Standings Prediction

Position	Club	Games	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Manchester City	38	26.0	8.1	3.9	90.0	37.6	52.4	86.2
2	Arsenal	38	26.3	6.1	5.6	88.3	30.3	58.0	84.9
3	Liverpool	38	25.0	9.0	4.0	87.6	38.1	49.5	84.1
4	Aston Villa	38	20.7	7.1	10.2	75.6	58.0	17.6	69.1
5	Tottenham	38	19.9	7.2	10.9	74.4	61.2	13.2	66.9
6	Newcastle	38	17.9	6.2	13.9	81.6	62.0	19.6	59.9
7	Manchester Utd	38	17.1	6.3	14.6	55.3	57.6	-2.3	57.6
8	Chelsea	38	15.8	9.4	12.9	72.9	64.1	8.8	56.7
9	West Ham	38	14.1	9.9	14.0	58.3	69.7	-11.5	52.1
10	Brighton	38	13.0	12.3	12.7	61.3	61.0	0.3	51.3
11	Bournemouth	38	13.4	10.3	14.3	56.2	66.0	-9.7	50.5
12	Wolverhampton	38	13.5	8.2	16.4	52.9	63.3	-10.4	48.5
13	Fulham	38	13.6	7.1	17.3	56.2	60.0	-3.8	47.9
14	Crystal Palace	38	10.3	10.5	17.2	45.8	62.4	-16.6	41.5
15	Brentford	38	9.8	9.1	19.1	54.7	66.5	-11.7	38.4
16	Everton	38	11.3	9.3	17.4	40.8	57.2	-16.4	37.2
17	Nottingham Forest	38	8.8	10.3	18.9	48.1	64.5	-16.4	32.6
18	Luton	38	7.6	8.1	22.2	53.8	79.2	-25.5	31.0
19	Burnley	38	5.4	9.2	23.5	39.1	76.7	-37.6	25.3
20	Sheffield Utd	38	4.6	8.4	25.0	37.1	94.5	-57.4	22.2

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Match Stats: Three home losses on the spin

• Wolves have lost just one of their seven Premier League meetings with Bournemouth (W4 D2), though it  was a 1-0 loss in this exact fixture at Molineux last season. 
• Bournemouth have won three of their six away league games against Wolves (L3). They won 1-0 in this  exact fixture last season, but have never won consecutive league visits to Molineux. 
• Wolves have already completed the Premier League double over Chelsea, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur  this season, and beat Bournemouth 2-1 in the reverse fixture in October. Only in 2019-20 (5), 2020-21 (4)  and 2021-22 (4) have they done the double over 4+ opponents in the competition. 
• Wolves have won just two of their last 11 Premier League games played on a Wednesday (D5 L4), though  one of those wins was their only such game so far this season (4-1 at Brentford). 
• Bournemouth have won five of their last six midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Premier League matches (D1), keeping four clean sheets in that run. The Cherries had been winless in nine such games  before this (D2 L7). 
• In all competitions, Wolves are winless in six games (D2 L4), this after having won four of their previous  five beforehand. Wolves last went longer without a win within a single season when they failed to win their  final seven matches of the 2021-22 campaign under Bruno Lage. 
• Wolves have lost each of their last three home games in all competitions; they last lost four in a row at  Molineux within a single season in February 2017 as a Championship side under Paul Lambert. 

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Wolves Fixtures: Final Stretch For Wolves

• Vs Bournemouth (H)
• Vs Luton (H)
• Vs Manchester City (A)
• Vs Crystal Palace (H)
• Vs Liverpool (A)

Bournemouth Fixtures: Cherry On The Cake Ending?

• Vs Wolves (A)
• Vs Brighton (H)
• Vs Arsenal (A)
• Vs Brentford (H)
• Vs Chelsea (A)

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