With 10 minutes remaining of this curious campaign Everton’s unbeaten Goodison Park run was effectively consigned to history.

Eleven Premier League sides in succession have failed to claim victories from their visits to Everton.

But next season, Carlo Ancelotti’s team start from zero.

The Italian manager has made clear his plotting for next term begins right now and, perhaps, resetting the clock feels about right.

Everton ended up in the Premier League's 12th spot but their finishing position does nothing to tell the story of an extraordinary season on and off the field, at turns bumpy, thrilling, concerning and exhilarating.

The high point, Tim Cahill said this weekend, was the appointment of Italian Ancelotti, with his enviable CV, studded with illustrious former employers and a glut of major honours.

Ancelotti has generally liked what he’s seen at Goodison this season and going nine matches undefeated in the league from the start of his rein equals anything achieved by any of the 61-year-old's predecessors.

He won’t, though, have enjoyed how the 80th minute of this contest unfolded.

Junior Stanislas wriggled free on Everton’s right, motoring forward to collect a return ball from Joshua King, before easing into the box and sliding a finish across Jordan Pickford.

It wasn’t a great way to surrender a proud record.

But what is?

Stanislas had been on 16 minutes as an increasingly jittery Bournemouth clung to their 2-1 lead.

Everton continued to have more of the ball – 69 per cent of it by the end – and mustered five shots in all at Aaron Ramsdale’s goal.

None of them other than Moise Kean’s 41st-minute strike really stretched the keeper, though.

Everton’s reward for their best piece of football in the opening half was that equalising goal.

Gylfi Sigurdsson, again playing behind the striker, was found in space by Andre Gomes and spun a pass to Seamus Coleman.

The Irishman, showing up in attack more than of late – perhaps a consequence of Everton’s tweaked system – skipped past Diego Rico and slid a clever pass for Theo Walcott.

Kean, meanwhile, moved to the far post and was able to tap the cross into an empty net.

The Italian couldn’t generate sufficient power to test Ramsdale when meeting Lucas Digne’s cross soon after.

It seemed momentum was swinging in Everton’s favour.

They had been penned back by opponents playing very much like a team which had to win to have any hope of being a Premier League side next term.

Bournemouth made all the early running, Michael Keane picking up where he left off at Sheffield United on Monday by making two towering clearances.

Eddie Howe’s charged-up side made their early pressure count with a 12th-minute penalty from King but would have been concerned over the fragile nature of their advantage.

Kean’s goal, then, had the potential to rock Bournemouth on their heels.

But the away team cleared their heads and restored their advantage in the first minute of stoppage time.

Dominic Solanke applied the crucial touch, reaching Rico’s left-wing free-kick – awarded after Coleman impeded the eventual scorer – to flick the ball beyond Pickford.

The early challenges encountered by Pickford spoke to how Bournemouth went through the gears.

An easy stop from King’s side footer was followed by an altogether more complicated save, Pickford throwing up a strong right hand to deny Callum Wilson one-one-one after King's pass had travelled between left-back Digne and centre-half Jarrad Branthwaite.

Opposite number Ramsdale had produced his first stop by this point, beating out a rising effort from Coleman after the right-back served notice of what would come with Kean’s goal when cutting inside unchallenged.

The VAR took over for a spell from here.

Everton were spared after a ball reared up in the box to hit Digne on the hand after 17 minutes.

They didn’t get the rub of the green five minutes earlier, though.

Another goalmouth scene, another Everton player seemingly making contact with an arm.

Richarlison this time, they key difference perhaps the Brazilian’s motion towards the ball.

It was one of those ‘umpire’s calls’ – whatever conclusion referee Chris Kavanagh drew was likely to be signed off at Stockley Park.

King, the game’s most prominent player until now, placed his penalty inside Pickford’s left post.

Everton’s immediate response?

A shot from Richarlison blocked by Lloyd Kelly after excellent work from Kean down the left and Ramsdale coming to his side’s rescue when Walcott ran on to Kean’s excellent chipped return pass.

Pickford dived left to repel a drive from Wilson shortly after the restart but Everton’s already significant possession share was climbing further.

Bournemouth, edging closer to the result they so desperately needed, inevitably went on the retreat.

Kelly got away with one when a ball brushed his hand in the area despite the pleadings of the nearby Kean, who crashed one shot into the defender and saw a header gathered by Ramsdale.

Not long after the hour, striker Solanke was back on the fringes of Bournemouth’s box lending a hand to his defenders after a run and cross from Anthony Gordon – brought on to form a new-look Everton right side with Djibril Sidibe, Walcott and Coleman making way.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Bernard and Leighton Baines wer introduced next, directly after the second half drinks break – possibly the last one of those interventions we’ll see – that trio replacing Digne, Kean and Tom Davies.

Baines made a formidable challenge with Wilson poised to shoot in the box – it was remarkable from a player fresh into the action and with the game at stake.

Bournemouth banked men behind the ball but, crucially, retained their threat on the break.

And the lithe Stanislas killed off Everton’s Goodison run with his side-footed finish.

It wasn’t enough for Bournemouth to stay in the Premier League – where Everton will start afresh under their superboss in seven weeks’ time.

Bright-Spark Kean

There wasn’t an explosion of unfettered joy from Moise Kean to rival his response after scoring his first Everton goal six months ago.

Rather, when the young striker turned home Theo Walcott’s cross after 41 minutes, his response was decidedly matter-of-fact.

The kind which says, ‘This is what I do’.

It smacked of a player whose confidence was up following an impressive return to Everton’s starting line-up.

The Italian’s first campaign after transferring from Juventus has represented a steep learning curve and his opportunities have tended to come from the bench – 23 times Kean has been used as a substitute in the Premier League.

His ecstatic reaction after scoring his first goal for the Club against Newcastle United in January gave us a glimpse into the mind of a footballer desperately eager to inject momentum into his Everton career.

The return to fitness of Richarlison for the Blues’ next game – the stirring comeback to defeat Watford – checked Kean’s progress in the short term.

But Carlo Ancelotti has made no bones about Kean’s position in the manager’s long-term plans and he made good on his recent promise to give the striker minutes on the pitch before this campaign finished.

Kean was entrusted with a solo assignment at the head of Everton’s attack, operating in front of a forward trio.

It is a position which demands strong hold-up play and twice in quick succession Kean did magnificently with his back to goal – perhaps infusing him with the conviction to elegantly pirouette away from David Brooks.

Kean employed his strength to keep Diego Rico at bay on Everton's left and slide a precise pass central to Richarlison, whose shot was blocked.

Better still, was the way Kean resisted Steve Cook’s efforts to knock him off the ball, spinning away from the centre-half before skilfully dinking a return pass to send Walcott running at goal.

Kean’s tail was up, defenders bouncing off the 20-year-old and the Everton player always aiming to be direct with the ball at his feet.

He look capable aerially, springing in front of Lloyd Kelly to help on a Jordan Pickford punt.

Kean led the way in the first stage of Everton’s hunt for an equaliser after the break.

By the time he left the way clear for Dominic Calvert-Lewin to participate in Everton’s final push, Kean had aimed more shots (four) – three of those on target – than any player on the field.

His three key passes were more than anyone else managed, too.