Christian Atsu was reinstated into the starting XI for Eddie Howe’s men away to Preston North End in the English league cup. The former Porto midfielder was replaced with nine minutes remaining in a hard earned penalty shootout win.

The 24 –year old wing maestro joined AFC Bournemouth on a season-long loan from English Champions.The quick-footed black stars winger terrorized defenders for fun in the 81 minutes awarded him by the Cherries, head coach.

The 2015 AFCON Cup player of the tournament has found playing time difficult to access since leaving Portugal for London.He spent the past two season at Vitesse and Goodison Park respectively before joining the cherries as his third straight loan club since joining Chelsea.

Goals from Macdonaldo and Mark Pugh shot the visitors seemed to have sent the Premier League debutants into the next round only for Mark Pugil and Daniel Johnson to send the tie into the lottery of shoot out after extra time.A 2-3 away win for Eddie’s men booked them a place in the fourth round of the league cup.

Atsu will be hoping for a debut call into the Cherries that will visit the Britania on Saturday for the clash with Stoke City in the premier league.