Bournemouth equalled the club record of eight consecutive wins with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Ipswich Town on Sunday, as Evanilson continued his remarkable scoring run and the Cherries survived a late rally at Portman Road.

The visitors were ahead after only five minutes, and the goal came from a terrible error by Ipswich goalkeeper Christian Walton. The keeper tried to dribble around Evanilson inside his own area, was dispossessed by the Brazilian forward, and watched as the ball was rolled into the empty net.

It was Evanilson's fifth consecutive Premier League match with a goal, and his seventh in eight games, a run that has transformed his season after he failed to score in his first six appearances of the campaign. He has now bettered his entire goal tally from last season.

Bournemouth doubled their lead 27 seconds into the second half. Ryan Christie's effort was deflected off Ipswich defender Leif Davis and into his own net, leaving the hosts with a mountain to climb.

Ipswich, managed by Gary O'Neil, had twice shot themselves in the foot in the space of a few days. They had conceded two soft goals in a 2-2 draw at Hull City in midweek, and the errors against Bournemouth followed the same pattern: poor decisions in their own defensive third punished ruthlessly.

The home side did rally. Lewis Cook tripped Abdoul Ouattara inside the area with 17 minutes left, and Jack Clarke slotted home the penalty to set up a tense finish at Portman Road. Ipswich pushed for an equaliser, but Bournemouth held on to complete a near-perfect month since the last international break.

Manager Marco Rose paid tribute to his side's togetherness after the match, and the numbers back up the praise. Eight wins in a row is a club record-equalling run, and the Cherries have built it on a mix of clinical finishing and resilience in tight games.

For Ipswich, the defeat leaves them with 11 points from their opening 10 Premier League games, three points above the relegation zone heading into the second international break. They have conceded 20 goals in those 10 matches, and O'Neil knows his team need to stop giving poor goals away if they are to start winning again. They have now managed only one win from their last seven matches.

Both sides return to action on Saturday 21 November, with Ipswich travelling to Tottenham and Bournemouth hosting Nottingham Forest.

The run has taken Bournemouth into the thick of the race for European places, and Rose's side will fancy their chances of extending it at home to Forest after the break. For Ipswich, the fortnight off offers O'Neil time on the training ground to address the defensive lapses that have cost them points in three of their last four outings.