Bournemouth earn a point but Wolves’ Bruno Lage sees his side booed off

It felt significant, and a little pointed, that a day on from Scott Parker being sacked, in part at least, for refusing to play happy families, the message displayed on the big screens and reiterated over the speakers before kick-off was “Together, anything is possible”, Bournemouth’s motto en route from League Two to the Premier League.

A degree of trepidation given the manner of their mauling by Liverpool was understandable but they roused themselves against a Wolves team who have problems of their own to resolve. Bruno Lage’s side were booed off by their fans at the final whistle.

Parker’s dismissal 26 days into the new season inevitably sharpened the focus on Bournemouth in the buildup to this match but by the end it was hard to know which club finds themselves in a stickier situation.

Wolves last tasted a league victory in April and towards the end of this stalemate the agitated away support chanted for Lage to make substitutions after they had witnessed a grey display. Raúl Jiménez fluffed his lines after being released through on goal with 78 minutes on the clock and two minutes later the returning Bournemouth captain Lloyd Kelly cleared off the line.

Jiménez then headed wide a cross from Daniel Podence and João Moutinho saw a shot heroically blocked by Kelly.

As Bournemouth doubtless discovered in recent days, there is no hardback manual to turn to when it comes to establishing how to recover from a 9-0 hammering. Saturday’s evisceration at Liverpool was Parker’s last game in charge, his post-match comments in which he again said his squad was ill-equipped to cope with the step up in class and suggested more heavy defeats were in the offing proving the final straw in an increasingly strained relationship with