He may only be three games into his Premier League career, but Rayan already looks like he could be one of the signings of the season.<\/p>\n
Andoni Iraola’s side saw off competition from several other European clubs to sign the 19-year-old, who replaced Antoine Semenyo after his \u00a365m move to Manchester City.<\/p>\n
The early signs are that the teenager possesses the same work-rate and eye for goal as his Ghanaian predecessor.<\/p>\n
By adding to his assist on his debut against Wolves and his goal against Aston Villa on Saturday, Rayan became just the third teenager in Premier League history to provide a goal or assist in each of his first three appearances.<\/p>\n
The first was Robbie Keane in 1999, before Anthony Martial repeated the feat in 2015.<\/p>\n
The only blot on Rayan’s start to life at Bournemouth was the penalty he conceded after losing control of the ball while trying to dribble out of his own box.<\/p>\n
“Some decisions you have to accept when the player is so young at 19 and it is his first week with us,” Iraola told BBC Match of the Day.<\/p>\n
“He showed character, personality, he hasn’t been affected. I’ve liked what I have seen from him character wise. He has started really well.”<\/p>\n
Hill produced another solid display in his first season as a regular starter in the heart of defence, and it was his aerial ability that set up Adli for the winner.<\/p>\n
Only Aston Villa (18) and Sunderland (16) have rescued more points from losing positions in the Premier League this season than Bournemouth (14).<\/p>\n
After a run of 11 league games without a win during November and December, Iraola’s side appear to be back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He may only be three games into his Premier League career, but Rayan already looks like he could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-461886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}