Wilson hat trick as Bournemouth edges West Ham 4-3

Bilic feels his players may have let that achievement go to their heads, but now there is no excuse for avoiding the reality of a fight to stay up.

Wilson then got his second seven minutes later as he picked up the loose ball in the area after some diabolical defending Aaron Creswell and coolly slotted past Darren Randolph.

The Hammers though came back again, Modibo Maiga making it 4-3 in the 82nd minute.

“We need to find that brotherhood if you like and have to react quickly”.

“To me it was gone straight after the game against Arsenal”, he said when asked about the positivity gleaned from that success. But despite a few decisions going against them in this match and manager Eddie Howe claiming the second half was the worse they had played this season, they deservedly left smiling.

Marc Pugh put the Cherries back in front with a wonderful curling finish from just inside the box, and Wilson secured his hat-trick when Carl Jenkinson fouled the sprightly Max Gradel in the penalty area – earning himself a red card in the process.

And Wilson, who had never scored a professional hat-trick, was pleased to see his years of toiling in the lower leagues pay off with his maiden Premier League goals.

It was a well-deserved victory for Bournemouth, whose fast pass-and-move style had enabled the south coast club to win the Championship last season but not – until Saturday – score in the Premier League.

The Black Cats dominated the opening exchanges, but it was Swansea who broke the deadlock through Bafetimbi Gomis who has now scored three goals in three games. Maybe after that game we started to think individually like, “that is enough for us on the pitch”, but the fact is we lost the game, I don’t like this position.

Bournemouth’s captain, Tommy Elphick, was quick to heap praise on Wilson.

What followed was a wild finale to what had already been a wacky match, and an additional six minutes of injury time, because no one not affiliated with West Ham or Bournemouth wanted the madness to end.

“At 2-2, it would have been easy to buckle but we came back again and I thought we thoroughly deserved the win”.

Since failing to make it as a youngster with Portsmouth, Matt Ritchie has been a massively entertaining player to watch during his rise back up the leagues and has always carried a certain level of unpredictability.

The striker excelled for QPR in last season’s Premier League campaign, scoring 18 league goals despite finishing bottom of the division – form that ultimately led to a call up to Roy Hodgson’s England squad.