Barnsley suffered their heaviest home defeat for seven years since a 6-0 thumping by Charlton in April 2013.
Barnsley have now conceded at least four goals in a league game in 15 successive seasons, last going through a whole campaign without doing so in 2005-2006.
Philip Billing became the first opponent to score a first half goal at Oakwell since Sheffield Wednesday’s Josh Windass in February. The Reds had gone 15 home games in a row without conceding before half time.
Dominic Solanke then made it 2-0 right on half time, the first time Barnsley have conceded two first half goals at Oakwell in 17 such matches since conceding three to Preston in January.
Solanke’s goal was the ninth Championship goal they have conceded in 2020-2021 between the 40th and 50th minutes.
The 4-0 scoreline makes Bournemouth the second highest scorers in the Championship (29), behind only Blackburn (31), however this was their first away clean sheet in 2020, going 18 games without one since winning 1-0 at Stamford Bridge in December 2019.
Sam Surridge scored Bournemouth’s fourth goal, the second time he has netted against the Reds, also doing so for Oldham in the Football League Trophy in September 2018.
Barnsley have lost successive home games for the first time since September 2019 (0-2 v Leeds, 1-3 v Brentford) and for the first time without scoring since a run of three between November and December 2017 (0-1 v Cardiff, 0-2 v Leeds, 0-3 v Derby)
Victor Adeboyejo started back to back league games for Barnsley for the first time.
This was Barnsley’s first game on a Friday since the 1st November 2019.
Barnsley have lost three successive meetings with Bournemouth for the second time and have failed to win any of the last six (L4)
Indeed Barnsley have won only one of the last nine meetings (W1 D4 L4)
Bournemouth are now unbeaten in each of their last five visits to Oakwell, winning four.
Barnsley have failed to even score in their last four Oakwell meetings with Bournemouth. Chris Lumsdon was the last to net against the Cherries here back in January 2004.
Indeed home and away Bournemouth have kept four successive clean sheets and five in the last six.
Barnsley have conceded the majority of possession in six successive games and have gone eight games without having the majority, last doing so in Valerian Ismael’s first game in charge against QPR (60%-40%
Barnsley Team:
1 Jack Walton
6. Mads Andersen
26. Michael Sollbauer
30. Michal Helik
27. Alex Mowatt
8. Herbie Kane
7. Callum Brittain
4. Callum Styles
29. Victor Adeboyejo
11. Conor Chaplin
9. Cauley Woodrow
Substitutes:
22. Clarke Oduor (for Styles 58)
16. Luke Thomas (for Adeboyejo 58)
28. Dominik Frieser (for Chaplin 58)
24. Aapo Halme (for Helik 64)
21. Romal Palmer (for Kane 83)
Unused Substitutes:
40. Brad Collins, 32. Matty James, 25. George Miller, 19. Patrick Schmidt.
Bournemouth Team:
1 Asmir Begovic
5. Lloyd Kelly
3. Steve Cook
6. Chris Mepham
29. Philip Billing
7. David Brooks
15. Adam Smith
21. Diego Rico
16. Lewis Cook
9. Dominic Solanke
14. Sam Surridge
Substitutions:
4. Dan Gosling (for Brookes 72)
32. Jaidon Anthony (for Solanke 72)
20. Rodrigo Riquelme (for Cook 81)
24. Nnamdi Ofoborh (for Smith 90)
26. Gavin Kilkenny (for Billing 90)
Unused Substitutes:
23. Mark Travers, 25. Jack Simpson, 33. Jordan Zemura, 19. Junior Stanislas.
Bournemouth manager Jason Tindall said:
"We knew we needed to respond after a disappointing result against Preston and I felt we certainly we did that tonight.
"We knew if we won here tonight, we'd go to the top of the league. That was a challenge and that was what we managed to do.
"Tonight was not about any one individual. I thought it was a great team performance at a really difficult place in difficult conditions."
Sky Bet Championship results
FRIDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2020
BARNSLEY (17th) 0-4 Bournemouth (2nd)
Billing 12
Solanke 45+2
Rico 52
Surridge 68
SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2020
Reading (3rd) 2-0 Nottingham Forest (21st)
Lucas Joao pen 16
Morrison 53
Brentford (6th) 2-2 Blackburn Rovers (9th)
Rothwell 19
Toney pen 37
Canos 61
Davenport 87
Bristol City (8th) 0-1 Birmingham City (16th)
Dean 80
Coventry City (19th) 3-1 Rotherham United (2oth)
Biamou 5
Walker 12
Ostigard 72
Barlaser pen 85
Huddersfield Town (13th) 2-0 Queens Park Rangers (18th)
Koroma 3
Toffolo 39
Millwall (14th) 0-1 Derby County (23rd)
Knight 69
Norwich City (1st) 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday (24th)
Windass 60
Martin 81
Aarons 84
Preston North End (15th) 2-2 Wycombe Wanderers (22nd)
Barkhuizen 14
McCleary 48
Kashket 75
McCarthy og 87
Stoke City (5th) 1-0 Middlesbrough (10th)
Collins 19
Swansea City (4th) 2-0 Luton Town (12th)
Roberts 2
Ayew 89
Watford (7th) 0-1 Cardiff City (11th)
Moore 43
Barnsley lie in 17th place in the Sky Bet Championship with 19 points from 16 games. We are 8 points off the Play-Offs, 11 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 12 points off First Place and 8 points above the Relegation Zone.
Up to 6/12/20
Next Up:
At Oakwell:
Sky Bet Championship Matchday Seventeen: Barnsley v Wycombe Wanderers, Wednesday 9th December 2020. Kick-Off: 7:45pm
On The Road:
Sky Bet Championship Matchday Eighteen: Sheffield Wednesday v Barnsley, Saturday 12th December 2020. Kick-Off: 3pm