Winning FA Cup with Bournemouth would be up there with lifting World Cup, says Cherries hero Lewis Cook

LEWIS COOK says lifting the FA Cup for Bournemouth would beryllium up determination with captaining England to World Cup glory.

The star, 28, has excelled for the Cherries portion wearing the armband successful the lack of nine captain Adam Smith.

And contempt the controversial 2-0 location decision to Liverpool, Andoni Iraola’s injury-hit squad are firmly successful the hunt for a apical 7 Premier League finish.

Now Cook, who has shone arsenic makeshift right-back, and his team-mates privation to instrumentality the South Coast broadside to a archetypal Wembley cupful triumph.

Bournemouth person ne'er gone past the last-eight and up of their travel to Everton, helium told Sun Sport: “We privation to triumph thing caller for the nine and the players.

“We volition springiness 100 per cent nary substance who we play against. We purpose to progress.

“First and foremost we should expect to spell connected a tally ourselves. I consciousness similar we've got a large young squad and we're conscionable trying to prime up experiences.

“So I deliberation immoderate game, successful immoderate competition, you've got to marque definite we fight, combat hard and judge successful ourselves to progress.

“And, you ne'er know, effort and triumph something.”

It was successful 2017 erstwhile Cook skippered the Young Lions to U20 World Cup glory, a infinitesimal helium says volition unrecorded with him forever.

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On whether lifting the FA Cup successful May would beryllium up determination with the World Cup, helium said:  “Well, yeah, that would beryllium amazing.

“Obviously with Adam [Smith] being the afloat clip captain, I deliberation it'd beryllium bully to spot him assistance it. You know, coming backmost from wounded and doing that would beryllium great.

“Whoever's doing it, it would beryllium amazing. But we’ve got to triumph a fewer games archetypal of all.

“People cognize the past of the FA Cup. I deliberation it's monolithic for america arsenic players.

“I deliberation erstwhile you look backmost successful your vocation and you spot what worldly you've won, it's ever nice. So yeah, you ne'er know. We'll support moving hard and effort and progress.”

Bournemouth indispensable flooded a tricky task to beforehand into the 5th circular gully with the travel to Everton.

But aft antecedently struggling connected Merseyside, the Cherries came from 2-0 astatine Goodison to triumph 3-2 successful a Prem crippled Cook scored successful backmost successful August.

The midfielder knows this volition beryllium a wholly antithetic situation against the resurgent Blues nether David Moyes and the added constituent of it perchance being the past FA Cup crippled astatine Goodison.

Cook added: “We ever find it hard there. I deliberation they're a squad that causes rather a fewer problems.

“They're a good drilled squad and they've ever got combat and grit. So that's thing we're going to person to lucifer and effort to beat.

“So we cognize what to expect and we've got to spell determination and deliver.”