After successful Thursday night exploits in Europe, Bournemouth and Sunderland face off hoping to find some domestic form after both making indifferent starts to the season. BBC Sport takes a look at some of the key themes going into Sunday's fixture. "Three points after six games. We need a reaction, we need a turnaround, quite soon," Bournemouth's head coach Marco Rose said after their 5-1 loss at Chelsea . If only the Cherries could channel their early form in Europe into the bread and butter of the Premier League. Thursday's historic victory over Sturm Graz made them the first English team to win their first two matches in a major European competition since Bolton Wanderers in the 2005-06 Uefa Cup. The damaging defeat by Chelsea marked the first time they had lost consecutive league games since last December and stretched their winless start to the season to six matches. Only in 1994-95 in the third tier (eight games) and the 2023-24 top-flight season (nine games) have they endured a longer winless start to a league campaign. Such is the quirk of statistics that Bournemouth actually had a greater xG of 1.46 compared to Chelsea's 1.08 yet were still beaten 5-1 at Stamford Bridge. They've shipped a joint top-flight high of 13 goals this season despite facing the joint lowest amount of shots. It the fewest shots faced in the opening six games of a Premier League season without recording a win since records were kept in 2003-04. With just three draws to show for their exploits this season they are actually eight points worse off than they were at this stage 12 months ago, the joint most of any club along with fellow winless side Tottenham . With a run of nine games in 29 days under way Rose, is going to need to pick up league wins fast. BBC After tricky run, Sunderland looking to pick up points Like opponents Bournemouth, Sunderland have had a tricky start to their domestic campaign but have also picked up two morale-boosting victories in Europe. One win from their opening six top-flight matches means they sit just one place above the Cherries in 17th, and they are seven points down on the tally of 11 they had at the same stage of last season. BBC Three successive league defeats marks their joint worst run under head coach Regis le Bris. Heavy mitigation does come from the fact that those matches have pitted them against the top three sides in the table, but they will be keen to kick the losing habit. The Black Cats will also need to find a way of shutting up shop away from home given they have now gone nine games on the road without a clean sheet. Like Bournemouth they have begun a punishing run of nine games in less than a month as their European commitments begin to bite. The good news is that they boast a great record against Sunday's opponents having only lost two of their 12 encounters with the Cherries. Sunderland have also won on four out of their six visits to Bournemouth, with their only defeat there coming in the top flight back in 2015.

After successful Thursday night exploits in Europe, Bournemouth and Sunderland face off hoping to find some domestic form after both making indifferent starts to the season. BBC Sport takes a look at some of the key themes going into Sunday's fixture.

"Three points after six games. We need a reaction, we need a turnaround, quite soon," Bournemouth's head coach Marco Rose said after their 5-1 loss at Chelsea.

If only the Cherries could channel their early form in Europe into the bread and butter of the Premier League. Thursday's historic victory over Sturm Graz made them the first English team to win their first two matches in a major European competition since Bolton Wanderers in the 2005-06 Uefa Cup.

The damaging defeat by Chelsea marked the first time they had lost consecutive league games since last December and stretched their winless start to the season to six matches.

Only in 1994-95 in the third tier (eight games) and the 2023-24 top-flight season (nine games) have they endured a longer winless start to a league campaign.

Such is the quirk of statistics that Bournemouth actually had a greater xG of 1.46 compared to Chelsea's 1.08 yet were still beaten 5-1 at Stamford Bridge.

They've shipped a joint top-flight high of 13 goals this season despite facing the joint lowest amount of shots. It the fewest shots faced in the opening six games of a Premier League season without recording a win since records were kept in 2003-04.

With just three draws to show for their exploits this season they are actually eight points worse off than they were at this stage 12 months ago, the joint most of any club along with fellow winless side Tottenham.

With a run of nine games in 29 days under way Rose, is going to need to pick up league wins fast.

Like opponents Bournemouth, Sunderland have had a tricky start to their domestic campaign but have also picked up two morale-boosting victories in Europe.

One win from their opening six top-flight matches means they sit just one place above the Cherries in 17th, and they are seven points down on the tally of 11 they had at the same stage of last season.

Three successive league defeats marks their joint worst run under head coach Regis le Bris. Heavy mitigation does come from the fact that those matches have pitted them against the top three sides in the table, but they will be keen to kick the losing habit.

The Black Cats will also need to find a way of shutting up shop away from home given they have now gone nine games on the road without a clean sheet.

Like Bournemouth they have begun a punishing run of nine games in less than a month as their European commitments begin to bite.

The good news is that they boast a great record against Sunday's opponents having only lost two of their 12 encounters with the Cherries.

Sunderland have also won on four out of their six visits to Bournemouth, with their only defeat there coming in the top flight back in 2015.