Halfway through this match, Eddie Howe must have wondered where on earth his Champions League-chasing team had disappeared to. What had happened to the swagger so evident just a few days earlier in the rampant 5-1 victory at West Ham?
Fortunate only to be a goal down after Ivan Toney had recovered from one penalty miss to convert a second, the visitors glumly dragged themselves into the changing room at half-time having been totally overrun. Were three matches in six days catching up on them?
