ANDONI Iraola was pleased Justin Kluivert’s hattrick of penalties came for his Cherries side – after being on the receiving end of one of Dutchman’s spot kicks while the pair were in Spain.

Kluivert became the first Premier League player in history to score a hattrick of penalties in one match.

The record was broken during Bournemouth’s visit to Molineux on Saturday, where they beat Wolves 4-2.

This wasn’t the only goalscoring record the Cherries have broken, with Evanilson becoming the first Premier League player to win a trio of penalties.

Speaking on Kluivert’s achievement after the game, Andoni Iraola said: “He's good. I've suffered against him in Spain... I remember it very well.”

The moment of ‘suffering’ Iraola was referring to was back in April 2023, when his former club Rayo Vallecano drew against Valencia, who Kluivert was playing for at the time.

Kluivert was the man responsible for Rayo losing their lead in the 82nd minute, after a handball from Ivan Balliu led to a penalty, with the Dutch forward slotting the ball home from the spot.

He joined Bournemouth shortly afterwards in June 2023 – only days after Iraola began managing the club, becoming one of the Spaniard’s first signings.

Where his penalty taking was once the cause of Iraola’s pain, it was now a source of his success as he helped his side beat Wolves to take back to the south coast a win and claim all three points.

The Bournemouth boss went on to say: “Obviously Justin is the one we normally put [on penalties].

“They [Bournemouth] have another two, three players that if they don't feel in the moment that they are going to score, they can decide by themselves.

“But today I suppose he was full of confidence.”

This confidence paid off as the Cherries scored three penalties, with Kluivert converting all of them from the spot in the 3rd, 18th, and 74th minutes, with a Milos Kerkez goal splitting the first two spot kicks in the 8th minute.

Iraola continued: “Every time you shoot the first one, you give information to the keeper. You have been preparing probably all the week... what I'm going [to] do, and I'm going to stop here.

“He has had two different approaches in the first two and I was not fully sure in the third one what he was going to do, but he has been really, really good.”