Burnley vs Bournemouth: PL team news, kick-off time, likely line-ups, odds and stats

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Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Burnley's home clash with Bournemouth at Turf Moor.

Burnley team news

Burnley will be without defender Ben Gibson for the Premier League clash against Bournemouth at Turf Moor.

Gibson has undergone minor hernia surgery and is set to be sidelined for several weeks.

Midfielder Steven Defour and winger Robbie Brady continued their comebacks from long-term absences with appearances in a game at the training ground on Thursday but are not yet ready for the first team.

Provisional squad: Hart, Heaton, Lowton, Taylor, Tarkowski, Mee, Ward, Bardsley, Long, Cork, Gudmundsson, Hendrick, Westwood, Lennon, McNeil, Vokes, Barnes, Wood, Vydra.

Bournemouth team news

Bournemouth defender Charlie Daniels and midfielder Kyle Taylor are both fitness doubts ahead of the Premier League trip to Burnley.

Left-back Daniels has been sidelined by a knee injury, while Taylor has picked up a calf problem so continues to be assessed.

Winger Junior Stanislas made a welcome return from a serious knee injury with a run-out in the Hampshire Senior Cup on Tuesday, so could feature in the squad.

Provisional squad: Begovic, S Cook, Ake, A Smith, Rico, Gosling, Lerma, Brooks, Fraser, Wilson, King, Boruc, Francis, Surman, Ibe, L Cook, Mousset, Defoe, Daniels, Taylor, Stanislas.

Burnley vs Bournemouth - Key match stats

*Stats supplied by Opta

Each of the last six league encounters between Burnley and Bournemouth have seen both sides on the scoresheet, with both teams winning twice and scoring nine goals (D2).

Both Burnley and Bournemouth have scored in each of their four Premier League contests; only Newcastle and Wolves have seen more games without a clean sheet in the competition (six games).

Burnley have lost their last four Premier League games. They’ve never lost five in a row in the competition, last doing so in the top-flight back in January 1976.

Bournemouth’s haul of 10 points from their first five games is their best start to a league season since the 2009-10 League Two campaign, when they had 12.

Bournemouth have kept just one clean sheet in their last 14 Premier League away games, a 3-0 win at Chelsea in January.

Burnley have faced a league-high 103 shots in the Premier League this season. o Ryan Fraser has had a hand in 50% of Bournemouth’s 10 Premier League goals this season (3 goals, 2 assists), while also creating more goalscoring opportunities for the Cherries than any other player (11).

Defender James Tarkowski is Burnley’s top scorer in the Premier League this season, scoring two goals from two shots on target.

After failing to score in his first four league games against Burnley, Josh King has scored in each of his last three; only against Everton has the Bournemouth striker scored more goals.

Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe (since 11/10/2012) and Burnley’s Sean Dyche (since 30/10/2012) are the current longest serving managers in the Premier League. They’ve each managed 119 games in the competition, with Howe winning 37 to Dyche’s 32.

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