Huddersfield Town 0-3 Bournemouth: Dominic Solanke stars as Cherries consolidate second

Dominic Solanke starred as second-placed Bournemouth gave their Premier League promotion hopes a huge boost with an impressive victory at third-placed Huddersfield Town.

Solanke hit the bar early on before setting up Jaidon Anthony's side-footed opener.

The forward's break then led to Jefferson Lerma doubling the lead after a Huddersfield error, before the former Liverpool player's excellent flick made it 3-0 seconds after half-time.

The Cherries are now six points clear in second place and have at least two games in hand on the sides in the play-off places.

Scott Parker's side remain eight points behind leaders Fulham with a game in hand, but after this slick performance it would seem unlikely for any side to dislodge either team from the Championship's automatic promotion places.

Fifteen days ago Huddersfield had been a point above the Cherries in second place, but the end of their 17-game unbeaten run in the Championship — which stretched back to early December — came on Tuesday as they lost 2-0 at Millwall.

And that poor form continued as they were second best throughout — they could have been behind twice inside the first 10 minutes as Solanke had a difficult effort saved and headed a Ryan Christie free-kick against the crossbar.

It was Solanke who was in the thick of the action for both first-half goals — first Christie slid in the one-time England forward down the right and his low cross allowed Anthony a close-range finish.

Then he broke through on goal, forcing a good save from Lee Nicholls. But Tom Lees misjudged the clearance and Lerma was able to sneak a weak shot into the bottom corner for the Colombia midfielder's first goal in more than 11 months.

Lees almost scored an own goal 10 minutes later as he turned