Aston Villa cruised to a fourth straight home Premier League victory brushing Bournemouth aside 4-0 at Villa Park.
Unai Emery’s side had only scored nine goals in the league coming into the match but put their goalscoring woes to bed to dispatch Andoni Iraola’s below-par Cherries with ease.
Emiliano Buendia’s sublime free-kick put them on track for a fifth win from six before Amadou Onana’s cracker from range doubled their lead.
Villa had to withstand a spell of Bournemouth pressure but Emiliano Martinez produced a string of fine saves to keep their lead intact, including a one-handed stop to deny denied Antoine Semenyo from the penaly spot after Morgan Rogers handled.
Villa then made the match safe as substitutes Ross Barkley and Donyell Malen struck to wrap up victory and deliver a first four-goal haul of the campaign.
Boubacar Kamara’s ball over the top of the Bournemouth defence caused a problem when Matty Cash latched on and lifted the ball over Djordje Petrovic but the Bournemouth keeper was able to parry away.
Petrovic was called into action again following a fast Villa start, Kamara’s effort from distance needed to be put behind for a corner.
Onana sloppily gave possession away to Alex Scott who was brought down by Kamara. But Marcus Tavernier blasted high and wide from the free-kick.
Villa made them pay from an identical position down the other end after Rogers was taken down by Alex Jimenez outside the box.
Buendia stepped up and dipped a beautiful free-kick over the wall which sailed past the onlooking Petrovic and into the net.
Villa were producing some high quality stuff and Bournemouth were in danger of going two behind when Watkins forced a point blank save from Petrovic.
Villa were not to be denied a
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