Bournemouth beat Crystal Palace with ease to keep Champions League dreams alive

By month’s end, Andoni Iraola and Oliver Glasner will depart their respective clubs. Having both taken their clubs into uncharted territory, neither’s task is yet complete. Bournemouth’s victory, a game all but won in the first half, was one for the club with their Premier League position as the priority. Bournemouth’s hopes of emulating Palace this season in playing European football for the first time were increased by a deserved, convincing win. The Champions League may even be in reach, Europa League permutations permitting.

Palace played as if something else was on their minds. Perhaps understandably so. On Thursday, in the Conference League semi-final, Selhurst Park will stage the biggest match in 102 years of being home to south London’s Eagles.