Tyler Adams reports to the United States camp in Atlanta on Monday wearing the captain’s armband, and no player in the squad brings better club momentum with him.
On Sunday, Adams played the full match as Bournemouth won 2-1 at Ipswich Town, their eighth consecutive win in all competitions, equalling a club record that has stood since the 2012-13 season.
Evanilson scored after five minutes, a Leif Davis own goal doubled the lead just after half-time, and Jack Clarke’s penalty set up a tense finish that Bournemouth saw out.
The win leaves Bournemouth seventh in the Premier League, three points off the top four, heading into the international break.
Adams has featured in all 10 of Bournemouth’s Premier League games this season, starting eight of them, with 731 minutes played. In a side that has not stopped winning for a month, he has been a constant in midfield.
The Run He Is Riding
The eighth straight win equalled the record set by Eddie Howe’s League One side in 2012-13, as the Press Association reported. Marco Rose praised how his players closed the game out, saying: “We suffered, but we did it together.”
Three days before Ipswich, he scored in the 3-1 win at Sparta Prague that kept the run alive in Europe. The streak has run through both competitions, and Adams has been part of it in each.
The record can be broken outright in Bournemouth’s first match after the break, against Nottingham Forest on November 21. Adams will return to that occasion from international duty.
What It Means for the USA
Adams was named United States captain in October, and he leads the squad into a Nations League quarterfinal against Haiti, with the first leg in Miami on November 14 and the return in Cincinnati on November 17.
Haiti won three of their four group matches to reach this stage, and their squad includes Wolves midfielder Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Sunderland striker Wilson Isidor. It is a tie the United States will have to earn, with a place in the Nations League semifinals at stake.
Adams is joined in the squad by Stoke City midfielder Jack McGlynn, called up this week after scoring in consecutive league matches. The camp convenes in Atlanta on Monday.
What the USA get in Adams this week is their midfield anchor at his sharpest point of the season: a full run of club minutes behind him, in a team setting records, rather than a captain arriving short of rhythm.
Two high-intensity legs in four days will test that sharpness. On current form, he is the player in the squad best prepared for exactly that load.
His club season resumes with a record on the line. His week, first, belongs to his country, and he arrives ready for it.
