Bournemouth hammer Serie A rivals 10-1 in pre-season… before embarrassed side label it a ‘training session’

BOURNEMOUTH hit Genoa for double digits in a humiliating pre-season friendly. But the Italian side has denied it ever happened – instead labelling it a ‘joint training session’. Bournemouth hammered Genoa 10-1 in a pre-season friendly Credit: X Daniele De Rossi’s humiliated side denied that it was a proper friendly Credit: Getty The match at the Bournemouth Performance Centre was unusually split into four 30-minute quarters. And Genoa reported the scoreline from each of those quarters rather than acknowledging the shock 10-1 final score. Sign up for the Football newsletter Thank you! The first quarter finished 1-0 to Bournemouth with the second finishing 3-1, and the third and fourth both finishing 3-0. Unlike their red-faced opponents, who made no mention of the game on their club website, the Cherries reported it as a ‘pre-season friendly’ and posted a two-minute highlight reel showing every goal. Along with a Justin Kluivert hat-trick, Alex Scott and Enes Unal popped up with two goals each, and David Brooks, Daniel Jebbison and Malcom Dacosta Gonzalez bagged the others. Bournemouth will have hoped to get a good workout against the side managed by Italian football legend Daniele De Rossi, who finished 16th in Serie A last season. But it turned out to be an absolute doddle. Goals are becoming a common theme in a promising pre-season under boss Marco Rose, who replaced new Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola on the South Coast. Most read in Sport BEST ONLINE CASINOS – TOP SITES IN THE UK Justin Kluivert put three goals past Genoa Credit: Getty They put four past St Pauli last month and then five past Augsburg a few days later, with their 10-goal haul against Genoa making it 19 scored in just three matches. Rose’s men are slated to play friendlies against Real Betis and Mainz before their tough Premier League opener at Manchester City on August 23. Comment now