The biggest height difference between two Premier League players?

Big man Tyrone Mings with a nasty swipe on little lad Ryan Fraser and the Villa defender is rightly booked.

Mark Mitchener
BBC Sport at Vitality Stadium

The game has cooled somewhat from its frenetic start, but Aston Villa have improved greatly in the second quarter - somewhat inevitably, their best play has come through the twinkle-toed Jack Grealish.

At the other end, it's an interesting duel between England international duo Tyrone Mings and Callum Wilson - who will know each other well as they both spent much of the 2015-16 season in the same treatment room here, after suffering serious knee injuries early in Bournemouth's debut Premier League season.

It has taken a while but Villa are starting to grow into the game.

Frederic Guilbert gets in behind down the right for the first time and his low cross is parried back into the danger area by goalkeeper Adam Ramsdale.

Striker Mbwana Samatta follows up, but sees his goalbound shot brilliantly blocked by home defender Simon Francis.

Jack Grealish, in tight shorts throwing back to the 80s, is involved once more for Villa, finding space in the box but drilling a low shot which deflects wide off his own player Anwar El Ghazi.

And Villa almost punish them immediately.

The brilliant Jack Grealish has the ball under his spell, cuts in from the left edge and curls a cross-come-shot inches wide of the far post.

Mbwana Samatta just could not stretch enough to get a toe on it.

Sitter, he should bury this.

Lovely football from Bournemouth to carve open the Villa backline, Philip Billing slipping a pass into Ryan Fraser.

The little Scot pulls the ball back to Dan Gosling, six yards out with the whole goal to aim at, but he leans back and blazes over.

Awful miss.

Bournemouth midfielder Jefferson Lerma needs to be careful, he is on a booking and the Villa players are winding him up.

Harry Wilson pops back to his feet and is the player to strike it, but his curler is collected at the second attempt by Pepe Reina.

Now then.

Bournemouth have a free-kick 25 yards, dead centre after Marvelous Nakamba brings down Harry Wilson.

Villa get their first sniff of goal but Jack Grealish does not get enough bend on the strike and it sails wide.

Mark Mitchener
BBC Sport at Vitality Stadium

That's 10 bookings this season for Jefferson Lerma. He will be suspended for Bournemouth's next two games, away to Sheffield United and Burnley.

First booking of the day goes to...

...Jefferson Lerma of course - his 10th yellow card of the season.

The Bournemouth midfielder cautioned for a trip on Jack Grealish, who was just too quick for him on the halfway line.

Mark Mitchener
BBC Sport at Vitality Stadium

Bournemouth started slowly in both of their last two home games here - barely getting a kick in the first half against Arsenal in the FA Cup, while they were clearly second best for the opening half-hour against Brighton in their last league game, before eventually winning 3-1.

Unusually, they're attacking the Steve Fletcher Stand in the first half, which they normally like to do in the second half (think of Liverpool preferring to shoot towards the Kop after half-time, or Manchester United towards the Stretford End). But there's no denying they're much quicker out of the blocks today.

Villa haven't got going yet.

Villa defender Tyrone Mings almost gets in a mess when he tries a Rio Ferdinand-style turn on the ball but it runs away from him deep in his own half.

England international team-mate Callum Wilson comes snapping in, but Mings is able to recover to clear the danger.

One way traffic, it is all Bournemouth early on.

Little Ryan Fraser tests Pepe Reina from the angle with a strike but the Villa goalkeeper is equal to it.

Adam Ramsdale at the other end has been a spectator so far.

Plenty of Bournemouth pressure, nothing to show for it though.

A sweep move forward sees Dan Gosling attempt a one-two with Callum Wilson in the box, the Cherries midfielder hits the deck after running into Tyrone Mings but referee Anthony Taylor waves away the appeals for a penalty.

Correct decision.

Mark Mitchener
BBC Sport at Vitality Stadium

Aston Villa were Bournemouth's first Premier League opponents here on the opening day of the 2015-16 season, but none of the 18 players in their squad that day are still at Villa Park, four-and-a-half years later.

By contrast, seven of Bournemouth's 18 players from that sunny August day - when a late Rudy Gestede header gave Villa all three points - are in today's matchday squad. (Tyrone Mings was an unused sub for the Cherries, too).