Bournemouth dominated Everton, says Eddie Howe

Bournemouth coach Eddie Howe felt his side were the dominant team in their 3-3 draw with Everton.

The Cherries scored twice in the last 10 minutes at the Vitality Stadium as they rallied to level it up at 2-2, and then again in the eighth minute of injury time after Ross Barkley had made it 3-2 to Everton three minutes earlier, to snatch a point.

Junior Stanislas netted a double for the home team - including the dramatic 98th-minute equaliser - who had not previously scored in the last hour of a game this season.

And Howe insisted his players fully deserved their draw against the Toffees.

"It was a crazy ending to a really competitive and tight game," he told Sky Sports.

"The despair we felt at conceding that third goal was as bad as I have known. And then the elation seconds later was as high as I have known.

"It just goes to show why football is such a powerful sport and why everyone loves it so much.

"I feel that we have again dominated for large parts of the game, especially in the second half, and I think early in the game we were dominant.

"It was just a period after the injury [to Adam Federici] that we seemed to lose our way a bit today. We conceded two goals and from that point the lads really had to dig deep in their reserves and find something special, which we did with Adam Smith's goal, which gave us the spark to start our fightback."

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Howe explained he brought on right-back Adam Smith in place of Steve Cook at half-time to give Bournemouth more width down the wings.

"I was a little bit disappointed with how we attacked down the flanks in the first half, we felt there was room for us to give them real problems there," said Howe.

"But we did not capitalise, so the change was a tactical one just to try and pin them back really. And thankfully for the team this time it worked."

Bournemouth lost goalkeeper Federici and midfielder Harry Arter to injuries, but Howe was keen to play them down after the game.

He said: "Federici just seems to have twisted his ankle coming down from a corner, Harry Arter just felt something in his hamstring. The injuries are something we can do without but I really want to focus on the positives."

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