Juggling domestic duties with European adventures should not be as manageable as this for teams like Bournemouth.

Clubs of their size should be creaking under the weight of the extra fixtures. All those games, all that travelling. They have played nine games in a month. Far bigger outfits have toiled spinning those plates. Remember when Ange Postecoglou stopped bothering about the Premier League entirely just to focus on the Europa League.

And yet here are those brilliant Cherries, three days after a win in Prague in that same competition, making it eight on the bounce with a victory at Ipswich thanks to Evanilson’s opener, following goalkeeper Christian Walton’s early howler, and an own goal from Leif Davis.

Bournemouth haven’t done that since they 2013 when they were getting out of League One.

Now, they are seventh in the Premier League, second in the Europea League. And they’re in the League Cup quarter-finals - all while having the squad depth to name Alex Scott and Junior Kroupi on the bench.

Marco Rose’s side showed they can also do it the hard way, too, after Jack Clarke’s second-half penalty for Ipswich, given for a soft foul on Abdoul Ouattara, provided a far more tense final 15 minutes than anticipated inside a feverish Portman Road where Julio Enciso also twice went close from late free-kicks.

‘One goal changed the momentum of the game and that’s why I’m much more pleased about the last 20 minutes because we suffered but we did it together,’ said Rose.

CALAMITY CHRISTIAN

First James Trafford, now Walton. Bournemouth’s win over Leeds last weekend also hinged on a goalkeeping howler, when Trafford’s simple pass out from the back was intercepted.

This time Ipswich stalwart Walton took a back pass from Dara O’Shea and decided the best course of action was to try to dummy and turn Evanilson. He failed, of course.

Evanlison rolled the ball into an empty net. That intense Bournemouth press really can do some crazy things to you.

MORE THAN A GOALSCORER

After scoring the opener in Bournemouth’s win last weekend, manager Marco Rose told Evanlison that he was becoming a ‘real No9’.

That’s six goals now in his last seven games but it’s his all-round play that’s so impressive. His goal came from leading the press. He dropped in and played a beautiful curling through ball into the channel to set Justin Kluivert free down the right. He collected the loose ball for the second goal.

He made a fine run to latch on to a free kick over the defence to stab the ball over to James Hill at the back post, who headed over from close range, which would have put him level with Declan Rice as the leading assister in the league too.

‘He’s so hard-working,’ added Rose. ‘He does everything out of possession. He starts the press, he plays in between the lines, he gives us deep runs. But the most important thing is scoring and he understood that he also needs to arrive close to goal if he wants to score.’

SLOW STARTS COSTING IPSWICH

If the Tractor Boys are to make their stay in the Premier League a longer one than last time, they cannot afford to keep gifting early leads. The mountain is steep enough.

Evanlison’s opener was the sixth time Ipswich have conceded inside the first 15 minutes of a league game this season. They are yet to score one that early.

It is what will make this defeat especially frustrating for Gary O’Neil against his former club. ‘Gary, what’s the score?’ chimed the travelling fans.

For so much of the contest, Ipswich looked composed and confident on the ball, played with energy and intent and, after they pulled one back, showed how much pressure they can put teams under and how much this place can bounce.

They are much better side than the one that came up last time but you cannot come out after the break and have Ouattara give the ball straight to Evanlison again inside 30 seconds as he did before Ryan Christie’s shot took two deflections and went in.

‘Gutted,’ said O’Neil. ‘To lose a game that you haven’t been outclassed is tough to take. We restricted Bournemouth to nothing of their own doing. If you give the ball to the opposition number nine twice, it’s going to be difficult.’