CHERRIES surrendered a one-goal lead and their overwhelming early superiority to lose 3-1 to a Hull City side that had not won any of its previous nine matches.

Junior Stanislas fired Cherries ahead from the penalty spot on three minutes following Harry Maguire's trip on Ryan Fraser.

But 29 minutes later, and after Eddie Howe's side had passed up a succession of opportunities to extend their advantage, Abel Hernandez headed Hull level.

Hernandez drove in his second shortly after the break and the visitors' fate was sealed when Tyrone Mings turned into his own net with 28 minutes to play.

Cherries' primary objective here would have been to put their foot on the throat of a Hull team which had started the day rock bottom of the Premier League.

That mission was initially accomplished in the most emphatic style, the visitors' sucking the oxygen from their hosts with the game less than three minutes old.

Fraser and Jack Wilshere combined to retain possession high on the left.

On collecting the return pass, Fraser sensed an opportunity to get at his opponents and made for the penalty box, where he was met by Maguire, hanging out a leg for the Scot to tumble over.

Cherries' winger had barely completed his fall before referee Martin Atkinson blew for a penalty.

Stanislas, who was last on the scoresheet when he netted twice in October's 6-1 victory over Hull – one of them from the spot – stepped up to inflict further misery on the Tigers in their own back yard.

His 12-yard strike, high to Eldin Jakupovic's right, left the keeper with no chance.

Either side of the goal, Cherries' full backs, Adam Smith and Charlie Daniels, won personal duels with Sam Clucas and Adama Dimoande respectively in such disdainful fashion you wondered about the Tigers' appetite for the fight.

Given the howls that rained down on the pitch from the KCOM Stadium stands when Fraser was allowed to seize possession unchallenged on the edge of his own box on 10 minutes, perhaps an element of the home support were similarly minded.

Harry Arter was the next Cherries player to stamp his authority on a direct opponent, snapping into a challenge on Ryan Mason in midfield to knock the ball forward for Wilshere.

With Maguire's downfall fresh in their minds, Hull's players backed off, inviting Wilshere into their area to drive a shot that was blocked by Curtis Davies.

Centre half Davies then needed to extend one of his telescopic legs to prevent Wilshere's searching ball from sending Benik Afobe in on goal.

Arter, in particular, had started like a steam train. And the midfielder nearly had a goal to show for his efforts when he brushed off Robert Snodgrass to send a 20-yard shot skipping narrowly past Jakupovic's left-hand post.

Hull No 1 Jakupovic held onto another Arter strike from range just past the 20 minute mark.

Between times, however, Afobe spurned a gilt-edged opportunity to double his side's lead.

Michael Dawson inexplicably opted against heading Mings' punt forward, the defender instead allowing the ball to bounce and, consequently, Afobe to nip in and bear down on goal.

The striker, though, on his first appearance since opting not to play for DR Congo at this month's Africa Cup of Nations, never really got the ball under his spell and Jakupovic denied him, one-on-one,

The worry for Cherries' noisy travelling support and their manager, of course, was the prospect of them coming to regret their team not capitalising on their overarching dominance.

Arter bravely threw himself in the way of a fierce Tom Huddlestone strike as the hosts sought to make some headway. When Huddlestone swooped on the rebound and tried to play in Adama Diomande, Artur Boruc was quickly of his line to snuff out the danger.

It was a warning sign Cherries failed to heed, albeit Hull's equaliser arrived as a bolt from the blue.

Maguire collected Jakupovic's pass from goal wide on the right and shuffled play inside to Huddlestone, who fed Andy Robertson on the left.

The defender, glancing up, spotted Hernandez peeling off the back of Mings and promptly plonked the ball on the Uruguayan's head, leaving him the simplest of tasks to direct the ball home.

The goal visibly lifted Marco Silva's team, with the Tigers' Portuguese boss suddenly able to revel in his side's more measured and progressive approach play.

Cherries spent the minutes immediately before the interval scrambling clear a succession of Hull corners any which way.

Howe's men had one almighty let-off, however, when Huddlestone's inswung left-wing cross after another set-piece had been partially cleared, took the tiniest of deflections to dumbfound the unmarked Hernandez at the back-post.

There was no such intervention to save Cherries five minutes after the restart.

Snodgrass redirected Huddlestone's pass into the path of Hernandez, who had drifted right.

The striker cut in towards goal and, with Mings backing off, opened up his body to send a low left-footed effort across Boruc and into the far corner.

Howe reacted by hauling off Fraser and Afobe in favour of Joshua King and Callum Wilson.

Nevertheless, with the earlier cries of frustration from the home support having given way to songs acclaiming Silva, Hull had their tails up.

Mason's effort, after he had got the better of Andrew Surman in midfield and charged forward, flew over the top, before Steve Cook did just enough to stop Hernandez applying a clean header to Diomande's right-wing cross.

Smith then might have thought he'd had a stroke of luck when, moments after being booked for a reckless challenge on Clucas, he avoided a second yellow card for felling Mason.

The free-kick was all Hull needed, however,

Snodgrass delivered it from the left, with King heading away as far as Huddlestone.

The former Tottenham player's subsequent strike was true, but probably off-target.

That was until it hit the retreating Mings to leave Boruc totally wrong-footed as the ball careered over the line.

The momentum, now, had swung entirely, Cherries' confident, flowing start, a distant memory. So too, the jitters that had marked all of Hull's initial work.

Marc Pugh came on for Stanislas and was soon appealing in vain for a penalty when he went over under a challenge from Mason.

Referee Atkinson waved play on and Wilshere took over to bring a save from Jakupovic, the keeper clawing the attacker's rising shot away from his top right corner.

That, in truth, was the extent of the pressure Jakupovic found himself under, as Hull comfortably closed out their victory, successfully smothering Cherries' attacks in a bundle of amber and black shirts.

Safe to say, nobody envisaged this outcome during the game's opening exchanges.

Their defeat sees Cherries slip below Stoke and Burnley into 11th spot.

Hull City (4-4-1-1): Jakupovic; Maguire, Dawson, Davies, Robertson; Diomande, Huddlestone, Mason (Livermore, 86), Clucas; Snodgrass (Evandro, 76); Hernandez (Niasse, 83).

Unused subs: Weir, Tymon, Bowen, Marshall (g/k).

Cherries (4-4-1-1): Boruc; A Smith, Cook, Mings, Daniels; Stanislas (Pugh, 69), Surman, Arter, Fraser (King, 55); Wilshere; Afobe (Wilson, 55).

Unused subs: Gosling, B Smith, Ibe, Federici (g/k).

Booked: A Smith.

Referee: Martin Atkinson (West Yorkshire).

Attendance: 17,963 (inc 1,026 away).