Here, afcb.co.uk takes a trip down memory lane and looks at the first which came at St Mary's Stadium in September 2019.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Southampton, a port city in Hampshire known for its maritime heritage, the departure point for RMS Titanic and where the Spitfire was built.

However, until September 2019, it had never been a happy hunting ground for the Cherries, the club never having won a competitive football match in 15 visits.

That all changed when goals from Nathan Ake, Harry Wilson and Callum Wilson earned Eddie Howe’s team a 3-1 victory on a Friday night of high drama at St Mary’s Stadium.

It was a tale of two very differing halves between the south coast neighbours, the visitors reaching the break leading thanks to Ake’s early header and Harry Wilson’s strike.

And after reducing the deficit through a James Ward-Prowse penalty early in the second half, the hosts piled on the pressure before Callum Wilson profited from an error to complete the scoring late on.

The three points, which followed a 3-1 win over Everton, saw the Cherries climb into third place in the Premier League, their stay brief as Leicester leapfrogged them the next day.

Boss Howe made one change from the Everton game with Jefferson Lerma replacing Lewis Cook who was on the bench having returned from a nine-month injury layoff against the Toffees.

Following a cagey start, the Cherries edged ahead in the tenth minute after Jack Stacey’s marauding run had yielded a corner, his attempted cross deflecting off Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

And after Diego Rico had despatched an inswinging delivery into the danger zone, Ake outjumped the Southampton defence to power a header past goalkeeper Angus Gunn.

Aaron Ramsdale saved comfortably after Soufiane Boufal had looked for a quick response before the visiting supporters were convinced their team had doubled their lead.

After Dominic Solanke’s precision pass had found Joshua King, the Norway international fired past Gunn, only for the effort to be ruled out for offside following a VAR check.

Ward-Prowse’s speculative shot failed to trouble Cherries goalkeeper Ramsdale as it flew wide, while Che Adams saw his strike charged down.

The Southampton defence was carved open by a flowing move which led to the Cherries doubling their lead ten minutes before half-time.

Rico’s low pass found King hugging the touchline, the frontman slipping a lovely ball into the path of Phil Billing who had burst forward to join the attack.

And after Billing had taken a touch, he cut the ball back into the path of Harry Wilson who elegantly swept it past Gunn and into the bottom corner for his third goal of the season.

Ramsdale smothered at the feet of Hojbjerg after he had taken aim from close range before the Cherries goalkeeper parried Nathan Redmond’s effort from distance.

Ward-Prowse, who lifted a volley over the crossbar early in the second half, halved the deficit from the penalty spot after Steve Cook had upended Adams.

Although the Cherries remonstrated, referee Chris Kavanagh pointed to the spot following a VAR check and Ward-Prowse sent Ramsdale the wrong way in the 53^rd minute.

Cherries’ appeals for a penalty fell on deaf ears after King had gone to ground under a challenge from Cedric Soares, with VAR agreeing with Kavanagh’s decision.

Ward-Prowse side-footed a presentable chance over the crossbar from 20 yards before Ramsdale had to be at his best to keep out Boufal’s piledriver from the edge of the box.

As the hosts continued to probe, Redmond’s low drive cannoned off Stacey and flew over the crossbar before the Cherries eventually cleared another effort from Ward-Prowse.

Ramsdale dived to his right to save another thunderous strike from Boufal before the Cherries completed the scoring following a mix-up in the Southampton defence.

Gunn and Jan Bednarek made a hash of trying to clear their lines, allowing Callum Wilson to nip in and walk the ball into an empty net in the last minute.

WHAT THEY SAID

Steve Cook fanned the derby flames when he told the Bournemouth Daily Echo: “I’m sure it’s not a derby for them when they lose!

“But for us, a lot gets said about it. Our fans had never had a good day there to sing and cheer about.

“The more games we have and the longer we play each other, I’m sure the rivalry will grow.”

Cook admitted his relief after Callum Wilson had tucked away the third goal in stoppage time: “It was pure relief because it was 50 minutes of just pure defending.

“We hung on and rode our luck but I think we deserved that bit of luck throughout the 95 minutes. Now it’s just a great feeling.

“The fans have a difficult job supporting us because it’s a lot of miles, we are miles from everywhere.

“But when you see how happy and overjoyed the fans are after the game it makes it even more sweet.

“I really hope they enjoyed it. You could see how much it meant to them after the game. That was a really nice moment for the club.”

Ralph Hasenhuttl told the Southern Daily Echo: “I think we lost this game in the first half with not a good performance.

“Even if their first goal was a set-piece, the opponent didn’t have many chances but we didn’t play as committed and as stable as we have in the past few games.

“We changed the shape in the first half and it didn’t work. We changed the shape at half-time and I think it worked better.

“We had 26 shots on goal in the second half and a lot of chances. We were very dominating and we needed to score more than once in that situation.

“The final goal is not important for me as the game was decided in that moment.

“We had the chances to turn the tables and invested a lot but we missed the chances.

“We knew against Bournemouth it is always a tactically interesting game and we had a shape we could change a lot.

“At half-time, we had to be clear in the mind and try to find the right decision. I think we took the right decision at half-time because the second half was a massive reaction for us.”

MATCH FACTS

Southampton 1 (Ward-Prowse, 53 pen) AFC Bournemouth 3 (Ake, 10, H Wilson, 35, C Wilson, 90)

AFC Bournemouth: Ramsdale, Stacey, S Cook, Ake, Rico, H Wilson (Fraser, 63), Lerma, Billing, King (Surman, 90), Solanke (L Cook, 77), C Wilson.

Unused subs: Mepham, Simpson, Ibe, Boruc (g/k).

Booked: Lerma, H Wilson, Stacey.

Southampton: Gunn, Danso (Bertrand, h-t), Bednarek, Vestergaard, Soares, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Hojbjerg, Boufal, Redmond (Armstrong, 88), Adams (Ings, 77).

Unused subs: Yoshida, Stephens, Long, McCarthy (g/k).

Booked: Romeu.

Referee: Chris Kavanagh.

Attendance: 30,168.