Kluivert makes history in Bournemouth win
Justin Kluivert became the first player to score a hat-trick of penalties in a single Premier League game as Bournemouth punished an error-strewn display from Wolverhampton Wanderers to win 4-2 at Molineux.
Kluivert’s third-minute spot-kick started the scoring after Evanilson was brought down by Toti Gomes, only for Jorgen Strand Larsen to level for the hosts with a fine header.
The Cherries then took the lead again through Milos Kerkez before doubling their advantage with Kluivert’s second penalty after Evanilson was tripped by Jose Sa.
Bournemouth, however, was pegged back once again by Strand Larsen after the break, with the Norwegian firing a fierce effort beyond Kepa Arrizabalaga.
The result was sealed in the 74th minute when Sa clashed with Evanilson again in the box, with Kluivert slotting the ball down the middle to get his side back to winning ways.
The win moved Bournemouth up to 11th on 18 points, while Wolves remains inside the bottom three in 18th.
Kluivert was thrilled to have made Premier League history with his spot-kicks.
"That sounds beautiful. To go in the history books, that's amazing, super happy with it," Kluivert said."
The Dutchman has been directly involved in six goals – scoring five and assisting the other – in his past six games for Bournemouth, while he netted his first hat-trick in all club competitions since doing so for Ajax against Roda in November 2017.
"I train them [the penalties]," he added.
"We try some stuff, the first one I stop, and look at the keeper, what is he doing? I switch it up for the second one. Then the third, he doesn't know what I'm going to do. I waited and he chose for me. Easy as that.
"We have shown we can beat a lot of teams in this league."
Wolves boss Gary O'Neil was less cheerful and disappointed with the level of performance from his players.
"Not good enough. It was well below the level we've managed to reach in the last four," he said.
"We made it really difficult with the errors and the game became a chase.
"The start of the game, the first goal we concede, it's a big setback. We gave away two back passes and we didn't need to play backwards in those moments.
"We expect better than that. We should be able to make simple passes and good decisions with the ball. Today it snowballed on us. We kept on giving chances and making bad decisions."