BOURNEMOUTH, England -- Marco Rose said his Bournemouth team will stay humble after they dominated AC Milan 3-0 in the Europa League while Ruben Amorim said the match was over as a contest for his team after Mike Maignan's red card in the first half.
Bournemouth are now three from three in the Europa League after they brushed aside the seven-time European Cup winners. Rose's side are the first English club since 1973 to win its first three matches in any major continental competition.
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Bournemouth opened the scoring after eight minutes from a Justin Kluivert penalty after Koni De Winter handled the ball in the penalty area. And things got worse for Milan when Maignan was then shown a red card in the 27th minute after he shoved Tyler Adams in the face at a corner, with Marcus Tavernier scoring from the penalty.
Milan offered little in attack, and Bournemouth made it three in the 84th minute as Amine Adli slotted home a free kick.
"It was a big night for us -- I'm happy for the club and our fans," Rose said. "I'm really proud of my lads and how they did it today was brilliant from the first minute to the last minute, we played a good game.
"Even with 11 versus 11 we started well, we put pressure on them, we won balls, we created chances, we got the penalty. Then the red card of course, it makes something with the game, we had one player more.
"But sometimes you get into trouble in these situations. But we suffocated them, we didn't give them anything, and that's really good. I love our boys and I love our approach."
When asked about whether his team can make a deep run in the Europa League, Rose said: "We will stay humble. We know we are good, if we have the whole squad we know we can compete with everyone and everywhere. But we have so many games. It's so demanding, so ask me in April again.
"We are still in the right direction but we should not get in any way in a comfort zone. If we get in there, we get in trouble. We have to prove it again and again."
There looked to be a scuffle between the two benches at fulltime, but Rose played it down. "I couldn't see it as I went on to the pitch," Rose said. "Everyone wants to win games and everyone wants to compete. Even during the game it was emotional but everyone shook hands. All good."
This was Amorim's first competitive match back in England since being sacked by Manchester United in January. While his Milan team are playing well in Serie A -- undefeated after seven matches -- they have won just one of their first three in Europe. Post-match Amorim said the red card ended any hope for his team.
"It's hard to talk about the performance -- there was no game after 27 minutes," Amorim said. "We need to work on our mistakes, have 11 players on the pitch all the time to change the momentum of the game. It was a hard night for us -- because of the man sent off, and Ruben [Loftus-Cheek] felt something at halftime.
"We didn't have the time to put ourselves in the game, we had the first corner, the penalty, the sending off. We killed our game."
When asked what he'd said to Maignan after the sending off, Amorim said: "I don't talk with the players now -- everything is fresh. We don't have too much time to think about that. We are playing in [three] days at Udinese. We can do better. We need 11 players on the pitch."