This was a result that had been coming for AFC Bournemouth. Whilst the Cherries had gone six league games without a victory. The performances had merited much more. A narrow defeat to Manchester City, having earlier led preceded two draws with Everton and Newcastle United. If games of football were 80 minutes instead of 90, the Cherries would have been three wins from three.

Another draw with Brentford followed, again, having led earlier in the game. Before back-to-back defeats to Liverpool and Chelsea.

In Europe, the Cherries had shown their potential with victories over Real Sociedad and Sturm Graz, but now it was time to prove it domestically.

AFC Bournemouth dominated Sunderland from the first whistle, whilst the constant pressure from the high press forced Sunderland in to mistake after mistake.

The 2-0 scoreline didn’t reflect the dominant performance.

Man of the match against Sunderland

Evanilson

Antonio

Hill

Tavernier

Cook

Rayan

Smith

Adams

After the match, AFC Bournemouth head coach Marco Rose told Sky Sports…

“If I’m honest, I feel relief, but not just me. That’s what I feel, everyone here in the club, because everyone feels that the work we do is good, that the way we stick together is good.

“Everyone, everything is in the right place, but if you don’t get the results, then you have to answer questions. That’s the point.

“Today we have our first win, but we need more and want more. That’s very important, because we are still in a tough situation.”

BillyTheKid

Job done today in the first 17 minutes with an early goal and a Sunderland dismissal.

After 6 minutes, Evanilson looked like he was going to shoot as he was heading towards the Sunderland goal, but did a good cross to his left where Tavernier was and he headed the ball into the net for our first goal.

Then, a few minutes later, to add to Sunderland’s problems, their player brought Evanilson down on the edge of the box; he was immediately shown a red card for denying a goalscoring opportunity.

From then on, the Cherries dominated the game and should have had a number of goals, but it wasn’t until 3 minutes after half-time that we added to our tally, when Evanilson, one-on-one with their keeper, rounded him and scored a well-deserved goal, his third in three games, two in the Premier League.

The stats showed AFCB with 29 shots, 6 on target. Sunderland: 3 shots, 0 on target.

The result lifted our club out of a relegation spot up into 16th place.

The majority of the 12,004 crowd went home with a smile on their faces.

Vlad_The_Impaler

We perhaps could’ve gone for more goals, but it was a very controlled performance, and we saw it through with ease. Hopefully this is the catalyst for Rose; now he’s got the first win in the PL.
Evanilson was magnificent; he works his socks off.

Blandford Cherry

Brilliant performance, in particular the first half. We literally ran the show.

Tav, Eva, Cook, in particular, I thought, were brilliant.

The only downside is that the scoreline should have been a fair few more.

Not sure you can credit the win to a poor Sunderland side; we were straight out of the blocks, and the first 30-40 mins were brilliant football. Could quite easily have been 3/4/5 goals.

Ted’s Shed

Flew out of the blocks and a very comfortable win. Sunderland were poor, but you can only beat what is in front of you.
Eva was fantastic. Is this the best we have seen from him?
I also thought Cook and Christie had good games.
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