Everton game - 'A huge moment in Bournemouth's season'

The words of Eddie Howe couldn't have wrung any truer. Bournemouth would have been hovering just above the bottom three, had they not got a result against Everton, and by changing the team to get the result, Eddie now has a happy bunch of players all eager to try and get into the game for the Friday night fixture against Southampton.

Eddie had reason to be pleased about AFCB's game against Everton.

Bournemouth hadn't won at home in their previous two attempts and while one of those games was against Man City, the away defeat to Leicester had already started to heap the pressure on the players and Eddie Howe. With the Cherries now sitting in eight place they can solidify their top half position if they can win their next game.

The match against Everton was not all perfect by any means. Before Bournemouth took the lead, Everton had hit the bar and looked the most likely to score, but a corner kick gave Callum Wilson his chance to add to his goals this season and heading in the goal showed how he doesn't care how the goals come as long as they come to him. Aké might have been put off by a nudge when Wilson scored, but the main thing was that the ball ended up in the back of the net.

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Whether Ryan Fraser meant to see his free kick go in off Fabien Delph is harder to tell. He certainly put it in a great area and the slightest touch did the damage. The goal that will give Callum most confidence though is was Bournemouth's third goal, as he kept calm to stick the ball away against a top keeper in Jordan Pickford.

While it wasn't a clean sheet for Aaro Ramsdale, he again excelled and made up for some mistakes by both Jack Stacey and Steve Cook. Eddie Howe has to be pretty pleased with how the team played, and AFCB can start look up rather than down the table again after this result.