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Cherries can go up says Rodgers

BRENDAN Rodgers has tipped Bournemouth to join Liverpool in the top flight next season after navigating his team's progress past the Championship leaders in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup. Rodgers has seen enough of Eddie Howe's men, who came into that clash on the back of a 12-game unbeaten run, to suggest they will be heading to the likes of Anfield in the top flight come August.

"They are a wonderful team and have got an outstanding young manager," said Rodgers. "They can go on and get promoted, they thoroughly deserve it, they are a wonderful club. "So good luck to them, hopefully they can keep going. I think they can get promoted, that was 12 games unbeaten and I saw their win against Cardiff (a 5-3 victory last week) and some of their other games."