Evanilson Scores for a Fifth Straight Game as Bournemouth's Record Run Beats Ipswich

Bournemouth's run is starting to look historic, and Ipswich helped it along twice. The 2–1 win at Portman Road on Sunday was the visitors' eighth straight victory in all competitions, equalling the club record — and both Bournemouth goals arrived gift-wrapped: a goalkeeper caught dribbling inside five minutes, and an own goal 27 seconds after the restart, before Ipswich had touched the second half in anger.

The opener will live in Christian Walton's nightmares. Five minutes in, the Ipswich goalkeeper tried to dribble his way out of trouble with Evanilson closing him down, lost the ball to the one man he could not afford to lose it to, and watched the Brazilian roll it into an empty net. For Evanilson it was a fifth straight Premier League game with a goal — something no Bournemouth player had done before — and it set the tone for everything that followed: Ipswich chasing, Bournemouth comfortable.

Ipswich were not without a pulse. Julio Enciso was their liveliest player all afternoon, a team-high four shots, and the home side actually edged possession 55.9 to 44.1. But Bournemouth carried the sharper edge — 15 shots to 10, four on target to two — and the game turned for good before the second half had properly started.

Twenty-seven seconds after the restart, Ryan Christie drove a shot toward goal, the ball clipped Issa Diop and then Leif Davis's chest, and it was in: an own goal credited to Davis, 2–0 Bournemouth, and Portman Road deflated for a second time by a goal its own side had a hand in. Two gifts, two goals, and a record-equalling run suddenly protected by a cushion.

Ipswich finally gave their crowd something real on 73 minutes. Lewis Cook fouled Abdoul Ouattara, the penalty was given, and Jack Clarke converted it to make the last stretch interesting at 2–1. Walton, to his credit, kept his side in it with three saves after his early error, and Djordje Petrovic needed only one at the other end — a measure of how little Bournemouth's lead was truly threatened even after the penalty.

The hope never became pressure. Bournemouth saw the game out the way a team on an eight-match winning run sees games out — organised, unhurried, and content to let the clock do the work in front of 29,396. Eight straight wins equals the best run in the club's history, Evanilson's streak stands at five straight scoring games, and Ipswich are left with the hardest kind of loss to take: one where the decisive moments were their own doing.

There is still a season's worth of credit in how Ipswich competed — more of the ball, a penalty earned and converted, a game alive until the end. But the Premier League charges full price for mistakes, and Portman Road paid twice on Sunday. Follow every kick in the Game Center.