The two teams may be hundreds of miles apart but Bournemouth have played a critical part in both of Manchester City's recent title successes.
It was an incredibly hard-fought 1-0 win at the Vitality Stadium back in March that would prove the last gameweek the top of the Premier League table changed, with Liverpool dropping points in the Merseyside derby to slip to a point deficit that they would never make up .
Bournemouth were incredibly well-disciplined with Nathan Ake marshalling an 11-man defence but Riyad Mahrez was in the right place to score a goal that would prove vital to the Blues on a day when Pep Guardiola began to realise that perhaps his team wouldn't drop points for the rest of the campaign.
It was another sunny day on the south coast that proved a turning point in the manager's second season in charge. City had four points from two games when the Cherries took the lead in their Premier League game and the scores were tied until the 97th minute when Raheem Sterling bagged a late, late winner that would be the first of 18 straight wins in the competition.
Bournemouth defender Ake took the defeat so badly that he didn't leave his house for a week.
"I had a bad game myself. When I got home, my girlfriend’s family were there and I hardly spoke," he told the Telegraph earlier this year .
"I didn’t want to go out of the house. I didn’t want to be seen. It used to tear me up when we lost games, it stayed in me for weeks. I was a bad loser at everything. When we used to play board games, I had fights with my family and I had to go to my room."
Afterwards, the young defender realised that he couldn't carry on in the same way and had discussions with his manager in order to try and change his behaviour.
He was voted as the club's Player of the Year in 2018 and came second to Ryan Fraser this season, establishing himself as a reliable Premier League defender.
"I told myself that I would change and that I had to change," he said. "I spoke to Eddie Howe a few times and he told me if you dwell on it too much, maybe you’ll keep it in you for the next game. You always have the hunger to win games but it’s better to analyse things calmly than to just be angry all the time."
