Juggling domestic duties with European adventures should not be as manageable as this for teams like Bournemouth.

Clubs of their size should be creaking under the weight of the extra fixtures. All those games, all that travelling. 

Far bigger outfits than the Cherries have toiled spinning those plates. Remember when Ange Postecoglou stopped bothering about the Premier League entirely to focus on the Europa League.

And yet here they are, three days after a win in Prague in that same competition, making it eight on the bounce with a victory at Ipswich thanks to Evanilson’s opener following goalkeeper Christian Walton’s early howler and an own goal from Leif Davis.

Bournemouth haven’t done that since they 2013 when they were getting out of League One. And they’re still in the League Cup quarter-final.

Marco Rose’s side showed they could do it the hard way too, this team that had got used to conceding no goals at all, after Jack Clarke’s second-half penalty, given for a soft foul on Abdoul Ouattara, provided a far more tense final 15 minutes than anticipated inside a feverish Portman Road where Julio Enciso twice went close from late free-kicks.

Bournemouth shouldn’t have the squad depth for this. And yet, thanks to years of superb spending and building, can go on winning runs like this without having to rush influential midfielder Alex Scott back from injury and easing the likes of Junior Kroupi back in with a few cameos off the bench.

Calamity Christian

First James Trafford, now Christian Walton. I was at Bournemouth’s home victory over Leeds last weekend, a game which also hinged on the Cherries forcing a shocking mistake from an opposition goalkeeper. At the Vitality Stadium it was Trafford', who saw his simple pass out from the back intercepted inside his own box. 

This time, it was Ipswich stalwart Walton who received a back pass from Dara O’Shea and, incredibly, decided the best course of action was to try to dummy and turn Bournemouth striker Evanilson. 

Naturally, the 6ft 5in goalkeeper failed, lost the ball and Evanlison rolled the ball into an empty net. That intense Bournemouth press really can do some crazy things to you.

Ipswich have spent the best part of £22million on goalkeepers in the last few seasons in Kjell Scherpen, Alex Palmer and Arijanet Muric only for Walton - one of only two Ipswich players to be involved in all three of their recent promotions - to remain the man with the gloves. You wonder whether that might soon change.

Slow starts costing Ipswich

If the Tractor Boys are to make their stay in the Premier League a longer one than last time, they cannot afford to keep gifting early leads. The mountain is steep enough.

Evanilson’s opener was the sixth time Ipswich have conceded inside the opening 15 minutes of a league game this season. They are yet to score one that early.

It is what will make this defeat especially frustrating for Gary O’Neil against his former club. ‘Gary, what’s the score?’ chimed the travelling fans towards their ex-gaffer.

For so much of the contest, Ipswich looked composed and confident on the ball, played with energy and intent, even if they didn’t create much at the end of it all.

That makes errors even more costly and Bournemouth’s second was also avoidable as it a loose back pass by Abdoul Ouattara that allowed Evanilson to pounce again before Christie’s double deflected effort found the back of the net - especially when Portman Road can bounce as it did when Clarke rolled in the penalty to get Ipswich believing again and put teams under as much pressure as they did at the death.

More than a goalscorer 

After scoring the opener in Bournemouth’s win last weekend, manager Marco Rose told Evanlison that he was a ‘real No9’ before admitting that, if he was bring completely honest, the Brazilian is so much more than that. He showed that in spades again at Portman Road.

Yes, that’s now six goals in his last seven games in all competitions but it’s his all-round play that’s so impressive. His goal came from leading the press. He dropped in at one point and played a beautiful curling through ball into the channel to set Justin Kluivert free where only a blocked cross stopped the ball reaching an unmarked Marcus Tavernier.

He made a fine run, incompletely untracked by blue shirts, to latch on to a free kick over the top of the defence to stab the ball over to James Hill at the back post, who headed over from close range, which would have put him level with Declan Rice as the leading assister in the league too.