Bournemouth 4-0 Swansea City

Jaidon Anthony of AFC Bournemouth scores the third goal

Championship leaders Bournemouth got back to winning ways with a clinical victory over mid-table Swansea.

After the Swans dominated early on, the Cherries went ahead when Philip Billing crossed for Dominic Solanke to fire home his 13th goal of the season.

Solanke volleyed in Leif Davis' cross for 2-0 early in the second half before Ryan Christie had a shot blocked and Jaidon Anthony nodded in the rebound.

Jamal Lowe then teed up Anthony to drive in a fourth in stoppage time.

Swansea rarely threatened home keeper Mark Travers in a bad-tempered game.

Referee Tony Harrington brandished five yellow cards, four of them before half-time, and the match threatened to boil over when players clashed on several occasions while the result was still in the balance.

The visitors began on the front foot, but had little to show from their early possession, apart from a penalty claim when the lively Ethan Laird felt he was tripped by Davis.

It took Bournemouth a while to find fluency in attack, but after Joel Piroe's shot from distance was beaten away by Travers, the hosts scored against the run of play when Anthony's measured through ball set Billing away down the left, and the Dane's cross found top scorer Solanke in acres of space to pick his spot past keeper Ben Hamer.

Billing, never far from the action, was soon involved in an ugly scuffle with Swansea's Flynn Downes - recalled in place of Korey Smith - for which both players were booked, having been separated by their team-mates, and tempers stayed high for the rest of the half.

Manchester United loanee Laird ensured Davis, on loan from Leeds, had his hands full for most of the afternoon, but when Davis was finally able to escape his defensive duties, he sprinted down the left and hung up a tempting cross for Solanke to acrobatically volley in his sixth goal in five games.

The Swans were at least partially to blame for the third goal which arrived when Kyle Naughton lingered on Matt Grimes' backpass and was robbed by Christie, whose effort was blocked by Hamer, but the ball fell perfectly for Anthony to pick his spot with a header.

That ended the game as a contest, although Grimes blasted a late free-kick against the wall in a rare Swans attack.

Hamer kept out a curling Anthony shot, but the winger grabbed his second of the afternoon when more defensive dawdling allowed former Swans forward Jamal Lowe to set up Anthony for a fourth which slightly flattered Bournemouth.

It was Swansea's fifth successive defeat at this ground, and a miserable return to Dorset for Swans boss Russell Martin, whose last game as Milton Keynes Dons boss was a 5-0 thumping here in the Carabao Cup in July, the day before he left to take the Swansea job.

Bournemouth boss Scott Parker:

"I thought it was a big performance from us. We were brilliant overall - everything about us really.

"They caused us a few problems early on and that was probably down to me. They were causing us a bit of a problem tactically that we had to fix and we did that.

"I'm reluctant to say it was a reaction to Wednesday [the Cherries' first loss of the season, against Preston] because we didn't lose it through a lack of passion and desire, we lost it because of a few small details."

Swansea head coach Russell Martin:

"Ethan gets fouled in the box. The official admits there's contact, he just didn't think there was enough.

"I think we started the game brilliantly. It's really disappointing we don't score when we're on top.

"We have a long way to go and a lot to learn. We've improved a lot and we need to continue to improve. The game became very open and at 2-0 we were chasing it a little bit.

"I'm hurt that we lost 4-0, I really am. I don't think the guys deserved that. I think these guys (Bournemouth) had seven weeks of preparation together before the season and we haven't had that fortune."