Bournemouth 4-1 Coventry City: Arnaut Danjuma hits double as Cherries defeat Sky Blues
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Bournemouth's Arnaut Danjuma scored the first of his two match-winning first-half goals inside 23 seconds
Arnaut Danjuma hit a first-half double as Championship play-off hopefuls Bournemouth saw off relegation battlers Coventry City.
Danjuma's right-foot shot after just 23 seconds was followed within two minutes by a Coventry equaliser after Jack Wilshere brought down Callum O'Hare on the edge of the area, and Matty James' right-foot free-kick found the bottom corner.
But the Cherries were back in front on 28 minutes when Philip Billing laid the ball into Danjuma's path and he powerfully found the corner.
Danjuma then broke quickly to pick out David Brooks for the third goal on 69 minutes and Dominic Solanke completed the scoring with a stoppage-time fourth when Ben Pearson's shot deflected off him into the net.
The win lifts the Cherries back two points above Reading into sixth, while Coventry drop to 21st, now just six points clear of trouble after Rotherham United's point at Yorkshire neighbours Huddersfield.
It completed a first double for Bournemouth over Coventry since their old Third Division South days in the 1952-53 season.
They won twice at St Andrew's earlier in the season in the space of 37 days, beating tenants Coventry and then their landlords Birmingham City.
'The scoreline is very harsh' - reaction
Bournemouth manager Jonathan Woodgate: "We started quick and played with a high intensity from the start. I thought we played really, really well.
"Coventry are a decent team, they should be higher up in the table to be honest.
"It's all able attitude, application and mentality. If that's 10 out of 10 then you win games no problem."
Coventry manager Mark Robins: "We get punished after 30 seconds which is a joke but I can't be too critical because of what we have out on the pitch, we've got to deal with things better at times, whilst it's a disappointment, I think the scoreline is very harsh.
"We didn't lose heart, we got back into it and almost immediately got back on level terms again which was good, the second goal against us was a blow but we were still in the game at half-time and had a chance of doing something.
"This is a really tough game, we came up against a team that fancied it today and they need to pick some points up to get into the play-offs, we need to pick points up for other reasons. This isn't the end of the world, we have to learn from this and move on."