Following his side's heaviest defeat of the season, Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe spoke to his club's website about the 4-0 defeat to Dale, Nathan Stanton's sending off and how his side have to bounce back to stay in the promotion race.

"It was quite an even first half which they might have shaded on chances," Howe said. "In the last twenty minutes we started to get on top then conceded the goal on the stroke of half time which was a big blow. Just after half time I thought we were excellent - really pushing for an equaliser for fifteen minutes. Unfortunately we conceded that second goal. We'll analyse our performance just as we always do. We were unfortunate, we got caught and there were some good finishes from their players. Sometimes the scoreline doesn't reflect the game."

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Despite his side's heavy defeat, the League's youngest manager was graceful in his post-match interview, shown by the way he picked out Dale's leading scorer Chris Dagnall as a player who caused his side lots of problems.

"Chris Dagnall is a good player who has scored a lot of goals this season. He proved that with an excellent finish for his first goal," Howe admitted. "We have to bounce back after a bitterly disappointing result for us - this is a feeling you don't want and you don't like in football. You have to use it as a motivation to not let it happen again. We've got a really good group of players, really determined bunch. I'm sure we can bounce back."

This scoreline isn't likely to be one that occurs against Bournemouth very often this season, something which The Cherries' boss knows only too well as his side still sit on top of the pile in the League Two table.

"Considering where we are in the league table I don't think people can be too critical can they? This is one game in isolation - yes there was a disappointing result and performance but all we can do is bounce back. We'll go into the Chesterfield game with confidence because that's all you can do. We'll try and prepare the right way.

"It was a bad tackle on Marvin today - he's not a lad to stay down if he's not hurt. It was late and high. We didn't have an abundance of options today - look at the bench and Jeff Goulding isn't fit, Marvin is a central midfielder and Josh McQuoid is still finding is feet at this level. I didn't have an abundance of choices."

Quotes courtesy of www.afcb.co.uk.