AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe thought his side were excellent despite being on the wrong side of a 2-0 scoreline with Birmingham.
Barely three minutes into the game and the Cherries were hit by a poor goal with Steve Cook caught out of position. Birmingham played the ball out to their right and Andrew Shinnie tucked away the cross beyond Lee Camp.
AFC Bournemouth went on to dominate the possession and create plenty of chances, but a combination of Darren Randolph in the away sides goal, a well drilled defence and some good luck prevented the Cherries from getting back into the game.
Nikola Zigic then scored a second for the visitors after 35 minutes, giving Eddie Howe’s side an uphill challenge to salvage anything from the game.
The second half was a dominant display from the home side with second half substitute Tokelo Rantie coming the closest to beating Randolph, but his header was well saved by the ‘keeper.
Howe told BBC Radio Solent…
‘It is difficult to sum up as I thought we were excellent.
‘We were on a high going into the game and but for the early goal I thought we would have won the game comfortably.
‘We did everything but score and were the most dominant team. I wouldn’t change much about the performance, the level was very high. If we give that performance on average over 10 games we will probably win nine of them.’
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