Andrew Lloyd Williams reports from Dean Court

Cherries started brightly as Cummings got the better of veteran defender Robert Page to cross for Fletcher who headed over in a packed penalty area. However the home side were lucky not to concede when a McDermott cross wasn't fully cleared by Robinson and Lester almost pounced to open the scoring. Seconds later Lester was nearly through again as the pacy McDermott nearly set him through from the right hand side. After 15 minutes Chesterfield's pressure paid dividends when Jalal couldn't hold Lowry free kick and Talbot pounced on the rebound to give the Spirites the lead.

Cherries came out fighting as Pitman troubled the visiting goalkeeper with a solid drive from 30 yards out. The returning Bartley was out-muscling Perkins in the midfield to give the home side some respite. Bournemouth's top scorer again went close after 25 minutes when his free kick scorched the outside of the left hand post and hit the side netting. Steve Fletcher was unlucky not to level the scores on the half hour mark when Cummings free kick from the right hand side found the target-man whose header was well held by Lee. With the home side still on the front foot, Feeney was played through by Edgar but blazed wide from the edge of the penalty area. The visitors raced up the other end and nearly doubled their lead as Jalal had to be at his best to save a strong Lester shot down to his right.

Lester should have doubled the lead ten minutes before half time as McDermott sliced open the home defence but, after finding himself one on one with Jalal, his effort sailed over the crossbar. On a rare foray forward, Feeney managed to beat Picken and cross but Pitman and Fletcher were no match for Lee who plucked the ball out of the air. Minutes later, Fletcher controlled and volleyed over from 30 yards out. Donal McDermott and Talbot combined brilliantly with a one-two on the edge of the penalty area to double Chesterfield's lead on the stroke of half time. Pearce and Garry were powerless to stop this sweeping move and Talbot stabbed past Jalal for his sixth goal of the season.

Bournemouth started the second half in determined fashion with tackles flying in from Robinson and Bradbury. A Cummings corner was headed back across the goal by Fletcher but nobody was there to connect. Bartley recieved the ball and put in a dangerous cross that was turned over his own crossbar for a corner by Lee. On the hour mark, after a series of Bournemouth corners Pearce headed down for Pitman and the ball was scrambled clear by Page. A defensive mix-up nearly made it 3-0 when Jalal ran out to head the ball clear but nearly ran too far and was almost left red faced but loyal hounds Pearce and Garry mopped up well.

With Cherries looking dangerous, Fletcher headed against the bar from a Feeney centre after 65 minutes after out muscling former Wales captain Robert Page in the box. Cherries built another attack and Hollands set up Bradbury whose right footed half volley fizzed over the crossbar. Finally the pressure told when Danny Hollands pulled a goal back with 15 minutes remaining when he fired into the bottom right hand corner of the net after a Fletcher shot was cleared off the line. A minute later Pearce nearly evened up the game when he headed a Cummings corner down and wide of the left hand post. Next Feeney was unlucky not to connect to a dangerous Pitman ball which rolled agonisingly across the face of the goal. With five minutes left, the pacy Connell ghosted into the area and shot but his shot hit Lee, bounced against Page and was cleared.

Right at the death Pitman hit a hopeful volley from the edge of the box which bounced up off the turf and past Bradbury who tried in vain to hit it goalwards. A corner in injury time was hit too close to Lee who grabbed the ball and the three points for the visitors, who gained their first league away win of the season after Bournemouth were unable to recover from their poor start.

Today's attendance at Dean Court was 5,896.

Bookings:

AFC Bournemouth: (12 Minutes) Garry, (43 minutes) Pitman

Chesterfield: (74 Minutes) 1 Lee (90 Minutes)  Boden

Scorers:

AFC Bournemouth: (74 Minutes) Danny Hollands

Chesterfield: (15 Minutes) Drew Talbot (45 Minutes) Drew Talbot

Substitutions:

AFC Bournemouth: (45 minutes) Bradbury for Edgar, (62 minutes) Connell for Bartley, (88 Minutes) Stockley for Garry.

Chesterfield: (80 Minutes) 21 Bowry for 14 Lester, (89 Minutes) 8 Niven for 25 Talbot

Today's team news

AFC Bournemouth

1 Shwan Jalal

9 Brett Pitman

16 Anthony Edgar

28 Warren Cummings

8 Anton Robinson

11 Liam Feeney

33 Steve Fletcher

5 Jason Pearce

6 Marvin Bartley

14 Danny Hollands ©

3 Ryan Garry

Substitutes: 23 Lee Bradbury 10 Alan Connell 17 Josh McQuoid 29 Jayden Stockley 30 Dan Thomas.

Chesterfield

1 Tommy Lee

28 Mark Little

5 Rob Page

16 Ian Breckin ©

2 Phil Picken

4 Jamie Lowry

7 Mark Allott

27 David Perkins

25 Drew Talbot

24 Donal McDemott

14 Jack Lester

Substitutes: 23 Mark Crossley 20 Dan Gray 21 Jordan Bowry 10 Darren Currie 8 Derek Nivem 6 Kevin Austin 19 Scott Boden.