ANDONI Iraola felt some relief after Cherries saved a point with a dramatic late equaliser against Nottingham Forest.

Antoine Semenyo scored with just four minutes of normal time left to play, after the home side led through a Chris Wood goal in the first half.

Iraola said that he felt ‘a little bit relieved’ with the point, but also felt that his side finished the game the stronger of the two teams and looked more likely to win it in the dying moments.

“After the 1-1, even, I was feeling like we were finishing stronger, we had a couple of balls just across the small box we couldn’t just put them inside, but it looked like we were the closest team to win it,” the Cherries boss said.

Despite going behind, Iraola said he felt Bournemouth kept pressing throughout, and that it was ‘fair’ that they got ‘at least a point’.

He was pleased with the impact of his substitutions, saying: “I think it has been very important for us, always.

“I always say, normally we do all the subs, we try to do all the subs with some time, even the games we are winning because the way we play is with high intensity.

“Sometimes it is better, someone plays for 55 minutes, and the other one plays the other 35, 40 minutes and we can keep this high intensity.

“Today I think the ones coming from the bench gave us the spark you need.”