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AFC Bournemouth 0-2 Southampton: Premier League – Three Key Players

By Erik Franzo

Southampton's English striker Danny Ings (L) celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Southampton at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on July 19, 2020. (Photo by Will Oliver / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo by WILL OLIVER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Southampton's English striker Danny Ings (L) celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the English Premier League football match between Bournemouth and Southampton at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on July 19, 2020. (Photo by Will Oliver / POOL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / (Photo by WILL OLIVER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) /
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Southampton’s English striker Danny Ings (C) shoots (Photo by WILL OLIVER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Southampton’s English striker Danny Ings (C) shoots (Photo by WILL OLIVER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) /

Make it 21 – Danny Ings

There is no rest in the quest for the Golden Boot.  Danny Ings has put to bed so many questions about his fitness and injury history in what has been a memorable season for the Saints’ striker.  Where would this team be without him?  He is arguably irreplaceable at this point and is in the form of his career.

Talking about his goal, it’s as if he has a sixth sense for the bottom right corner.  If you rewatch the strike, once he cut to his right foot, he never took a look at goal.  He is actually going away from the frame to create room for the shot and wrapped his foot around it just enough to slide the ball inside the post.  There are so few strikers in the Premier League with this ability and that’s with the entire Premier League circling his name as the biggest threat on the Southampton team sheet.

Ralph Hasenhuttl recently made a claim to Sky Sports that he feels his best players will be targeted and Ings’ 21 goals must be atop that list.  Yes, Premier League clubs with big bankrolls are likely to be calling his name, but this player looks so comfortable and happy where he is it is hard to imagine him reproducing this success elsewhere.  Ings clearly loves being the goalscorer on a developing team and appears happy to push his peers into a fight for Europe.  Strikers want to be the first name on the team sheet and Danny Ings will always be at Southampton and that feeling is what is going to keep him in red and white for the remainder of his contract.

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