AFC Bournemouth 0-0 Queens Park Rangers
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Bournemouth have won three and drawn two of their opening five Championship matches
Bournemouth maintained their undefeated start to the Championship season despite a lacklustre display against QPR at Vitality Stadium.
The visitors, who have now drawn three games in a row, created more opportunities to break the deadlock, but they were unable to find a way past Asmir Begovic.
The Cherries goalkeeper did well to deny Bright Osayi-Samuel and Macaulay Bonne as QPR took control inside the opening half-hour.
Although Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke went close after the break, Rangers looked comfortable in registering their first clean sheet of the campaign.
Mark Warburton's side enjoyed the better of the first half and would have taken the lead but for those vital stops from Begovic.
The Bosnia international foiled Osayi-Samuel early on and then stood his ground to deflect Bonne's effort behind after Luke Amos had unlocked the home defence.
Osayi-Samuel went close with another attempt after the break, firing into the side netting before he was withdrawn in favour of Rangers' new signing Albert Adomah.
The former Aston Villa winger almost made a dream start to his QPR career, going close to meeting Ilias Chair's tantalising cross just a few minutes later.
At the other end, Steve Cook's effort was charged down and Solanke could have won it when he gave Rob Dickie the slip 10 minutes from time, but fired wide.
Bournemouth manager Jason Tindall:
"We were well below the standard we set against Coventry. We didn't create too many chances today, which was disappointing.
"We take the positives - we kept the clean sheet, we're still unbeaten and we're third in the league.
"I think we had a few tired bodies after the international break and only got the group back together for the first time yesterday.
"We had some good moments without the right decision at the right time. When you're not at your attacking best it's important you don't concede goals."
QPR manager Mark Warburton:
"First half especially, we were really good. We should have gone in 1-0 up at half-time.
"Defensively we stood up and showed some very good character. They've got a lot of players with extensive Premier League experience.
"I thought we bit into the tackle and won the ball. We did a lot of work on the shape to narrow things up and negate their strengths and it worked well.
"We have one of the bottom-six budgets, that's the nature of it, but the players who have come in have done well for us."