MARCO Rose got the response he was looking for from his Cherries team in the 3-0 victory over Sturm Graz following their 5-1 defeat to Chelsea at the weekend.
Bournemouth were thumped at Stamford Bridge and plenty of the talk in the build-up to the Europa League game last night was focused on getting a reaction.
The boss said he was pleased with the performance as they comfortably beat their Austrian opponents to make it two wins from two in the competition.
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"It was a perfect start," Rose said.
"Clean sheet, performance-wise, top first half, not even a shot on goal from Sturm.
"Scored a nice goal. The effort, the attitude of the lads, the response we were asking for after the Saturday game was good."
Rose made five changes to his starting line-up from that game against the Blues, and he said he had belief in the players that came into the side that they could deliver.
"I did it because I was confident and, and I believe in the lads," he said.
"And I've always said that we have many players in good shape and we had good weeks of training even in the national break and it shows me that we are competitive, that we have competition in our team, that's what we need.
"We have Justin [Kluivert] back, we have Amine [Adli] back and yeah, everyone did well today.
"Doaky [Ben Gannon-Doak] came in, played a really good game, Julio [Soler] did it really well on the left side.
"So everyone today showed that he is an option for me."
Rose was pleased with all aspects of his side's performance.
"We did well," he said.
"I mean, Sturm is normally a high-pressing team. Maybe they changed approach a little bit, but we didn't give them anything in the first half.
"They had one counter-attack, and we needed to be aware always in every situation. They had a big chance to equalise, that's what we have to say.
"But in general, we defended the quality of them, and they have quality, very well today.
"And to have a clean sheet was even for me very important."
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