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Bolton Wanderers

  • Taylor 1’
  • Gardner 3’

Portsmouth

  • Crouch 20’

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  1. Bolton down Portsmouth

    Bolton down Portsmouth

    Two Bolton goals in the first three minutes were enough to see off Portsmouth 2-1 at the Reebok Stadium. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Bolton Wanderers
    • Portsmouth
    • - Thanks for joining us today... still West Ham v Villa to come tonight and make sure you come back tomorrow when the big guns are in action!
    • 90'+3 There it is! All over at the Reebok Stadium and Bolton win 2-1!
    • 90'+2 Oooh! Headed on by Hreidarsson, but Defoe heads over the bar!
    • 89' The rain is lashing down and washing away with it are Pompey's hopes of taking a point...
    • 86' Bolton boss Gary Megson takes off goalscorer Gardner and brings on Fabrice Muamba as time runs out for Pompey to get something from the game.
    • 80' Oooh! Taylor nearly gets a second! But his effort from outside the box deflects wide for a corner!
    • 76' David Nugent comes on to make a rare appearance... Diop heads off.
    • 72' Gardner bursts forward... he plays in Elmander, but James is off his line quickly to make a sliding challenge on the Swede! The ball falls to Gardner! But his effort hits the side netting!
    • 69' Steinsson into the book for a poor challenge on Hreidarsson.
    • 67' Nolan nearly gets Bolton a third! But he stabs his effort wide under pressure from James!
    • 66' Diarra comes on to replace Hughes... this is likely to be the Frenchman's swansong...
    • 65' Oooh! Davies goes close with a towering header from a corner that is hacked off the line by Krancjar!
    • 57' Another terrible blooper by James! He miskicks a backpass and nearly allows Elmander in! But the Swede can't capitalise and James manages to recover before falling on the ball!
    • 55' Hreidarsson heads the corner just wide of the mark! Pompey getting closer to an equaliser!
    • 54' Defoe wants a penalty here! But the ref waves play on! And moments later the England striker sees his sharp effort deflected behind for a corner!
    • 49' Defoe does well to dig the ball out from under his feet before letting fly! Just wide of the post!
    • 48' Taylor looks to bag a second against his old club from a dead ball, 30 yards out. But his effort flies way over the bar...
    • 46' Here we go again! Back underway in Lancashire!
    • 45'+2 And there goes the half-time whistle! Great 45 minutes of action... Bolton head in 2-1 ahead!
    • 45'+1 Off the post! Bolton so close to another! As it is, James pulls off a great save to deny Steinsson a header and divert the ball against the base of the post!
    • 45' Chance for Hreidarsson to draw Pompey level, but he can't get enough on the ball, again from a long ball, and the hosts' defence hacks the ball clear!
    • 40' Oh dear, that's a terrible challenge by Defoe... he's nowhere near the ball as he rakes the shins of Nolan... typically, the Bolton man shrugs it off, but Defoe goes into the book.
    • 39' Should be an equaliser! No! Defoe's control lets him down badly as he latches on to a header through! Jaaskelainen is off his line quickly to save at the striker's feet!
    • 35' Lassana Diarra is out on the touchline, warming up... perhaps wanting to put in one final appearance before disappearing off to Real Madrid.
    • 32' Gardner should score here! He's through on goal, but James gets down well to make the save with his legs! It falls to Taylor! But Hreidarsson blocks the follow up!
    • 30' Oooh! Kranjcar forces Jaaskelainen into action with a stabbed effort goalwards at the second time of asking! The ball falls to the Pompey man after Crouch knocks down to him in the box... neither side can deal with long balls at the moment!
    • 27' Oooh! Elmander is played through by a clever Davies through pass but the Swede's effort is way over the bar!
    • 21' That was Pompey's first real attack... but what a cross it was from Niko Kranjcar...
    • 20' GOAL! Pompey are back in this one! It's Peter Crouch who gets on the end of Kranjcar's superb outside-of-the-boot back stick cross with his head! 2-1 and despite Bolton's early dominance, Pompey are only a goal down!
    • 9' Bolton are rampant! Pompey are terrible... they seem to have forgotten how to defend today!
    • 7' Ooh! What a great effort by Steinsson! His effort flies inches wide of the post!
    • 5' Elmander forces James into a save as Bolton storm forward looking for a third!
    • 3' GOAL! BOLTON GO TWO UP! AMAZING! This time it's Ricardo Gardner who swoops, firing home under David James's body after the ball dropped kindly to him just inside the penalty area! 2-0 and barely three minutes on the clock! Incredible start for the hosts!
    • 1' GOAL! MATTY TAYLOR PUTS BOLTON AHEAD EARLY ON! Super strike from the former Pompey man, who dinks the ball over a defender's head before firing into the bottom left hand corner! 1-0 Bolton after just one minute!
    • 1' Underway at the Reebok!
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of today's game at the Reebok between Bolton and Portsmouth!

  • Team Stats

    Bolton Wanderers Stats Portsmouth
    43% Possession 56%
    19 Shots 12
    7 Shots on target 2
    1 Saves 4
    7 Corners 3
    14 Fouls 13
    5 Offsides 3
    1 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 0
    20 Tackles 29
    178 Accurate passes 253
    46 Bad passes 20

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Bolton Wanderers
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      22 Jussi Jaaskelainen 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 1 0
      5 Gary Cahill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 4 0
      7 Matthew Taylor 1 5 2 1 1 1 1 24 5 1
      3 Jlloyd Samuel 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 15 5 2
      15 Grétar Steinsson 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 10 0 0
      11 Ricardo Gardner 1 4 2 3 1 0 0 23 10 1
      31 Andy O'Brien 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 16 5 1
      19 Gavin McCann 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 18 5 8
      4 Kevin Nolan 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 17 2 5
      9 Johan Elmander 0 4 1 0 0 2 0 13 1 1
      14 Kevin Davies 0 2 1 4 4 2 1 19 7 1
      17 Riga Mustapha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      35 Temitope Obadeyi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 Ebi Smolarek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      30 Chris Basham 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      6 Fabrice Muamba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
      26 Ali Al-Habsi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Danny Shittu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Portsmouth
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 David James 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 2 2
      23 Sol Campbell 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 17 0 1
      7 Hermann Hreidarsson 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 14 2 1
      16 Noe Pamarot 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 22 3 4
      15 Sylvain Distin 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 27 3 3
      28 Sean Davis 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 38 4 4
      22 Richard Hughes 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 23 2 5
      8 Papa Bouba Diop 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 20 0 2
      19 Niko Kranjcar 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 24 1 4
      14 Jermain Defoe 0 4 0 6 1 3 0 3 0 0
      9 Peter Crouch 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 23 1 1
      21 Jamie Ashdown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      35 Marc Wilson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 David Nugent 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
      30 Armand Traore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      6 Lassana Diarra 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 21 2 2
      27 Nwankwo Kanu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      25 Glen Little 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • - Thanks for joining us today... still West Ham v Villa to come tonight and make sure you come back tomorrow when the big guns are in action!
    • 90'+2 Oooh! Headed on by Hreidarsson, but Defoe heads over the bar!
    • 80' Oooh! Taylor nearly gets a second! But his effort from outside the box deflects wide for a corner!
    • 72' Gardner bursts forward... he plays in Elmander, but James is off his line quickly to make a sliding challenge on the Swede! The ball falls to Gardner! But his effort hits the side netting!
    • 67' Nolan nearly gets Bolton a third! But he stabs his effort wide under pressure from James!
    • 65' Oooh! Davies goes close with a towering header from a corner that is hacked off the line by Krancjar!
    • 57' Another terrible blooper by James! He miskicks a backpass and nearly allows Elmander in! But the Swede can't capitalise and James manages to recover before falling on the ball!
    • 55' Hreidarsson heads the corner just wide of the mark! Pompey getting closer to an equaliser!
    • 54' Defoe wants a penalty here! But the ref waves play on! And moments later the England striker sees his sharp effort deflected behind for a corner!
    • 49' Defoe does well to dig the ball out from under his feet before letting fly! Just wide of the post!
    • 45'+1 Off the post! Bolton so close to another! As it is, James pulls off a great save to deny Steinsson a header and divert the ball against the base of the post!
    • 45' Chance for Hreidarsson to draw Pompey level, but he can't get enough on the ball, again from a long ball, and the hosts' defence hacks the ball clear!
    • 39' Should be an equaliser! No! Defoe's control lets him down badly as he latches on to a header through! Jaaskelainen is off his line quickly to save at the striker's feet!
    • 32' Gardner should score here! He's through on goal, but James gets down well to make the save with his legs! It falls to Taylor! But Hreidarsson blocks the follow up!
    • 30' Oooh! Kranjcar forces Jaaskelainen into action with a stabbed effort goalwards at the second time of asking! The ball falls to the Pompey man after Crouch knocks down to him in the box... neither side can deal with long balls at the moment!
    • 27' Oooh! Elmander is played through by a clever Davies through pass but the Swede's effort is way over the bar!
    • 20' GOAL! Pompey are back in this one! It's Peter Crouch who gets on the end of Kranjcar's superb outside-of-the-boot back stick cross with his head! 2-1 and despite Bolton's early dominance, Pompey are only a goal down!
    • 3' GOAL! BOLTON GO TWO UP! AMAZING! This time it's Ricardo Gardner who swoops, firing home under David James's body after the ball dropped kindly to him just inside the penalty area! 2-0 and barely three minutes on the clock! Incredible start for the hosts!
    • 1' GOAL! MATTY TAYLOR PUTS BOLTON AHEAD EARLY ON! Super strike from the former Pompey man, who dinks the ball over a defender's head before firing into the bottom left hand corner! 1-0 Bolton after just one minute!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Martin Atkinson

  • Bolton Wanderers

    Manager: Gary Megson

    Captain: Kevin Nolan

    Starting line-up

    • J. Jaaskelainen
    • G. Steinsson Yellow Card
    • G. Cahill
    • A. O'Brien
    • J. Samuel
    • K. Nolan
    • M. Taylor Goal
    • K. Davies
    • G. McCann
    • R. Gardner Goal Substitution Out (86′)
    • J. Elmander

    Subs

    • C. Basham
    • E. Smolarek
    • D. Shittu
    • F. Muamba Substitution In86′
    • A. Al Habsi
    • R. Mustapha
    • T. Obadeyi

    Injured

    • R. Vaz Te
    • T. Cohen
    • J. O'Brien

    Suspended

    None

  • Portsmouth

    Manager: Tony Adams

    Captain: Sol Campbell

    Starting line-up

    • D. James
    • N. Pamarot
    • S. Distin
    • S. Campbell
    • H. Hreidarsson
    • P. Bouba Diop Substitution Out (76′)
    • R. Hughes Substitution Out (66′)
    • S. Davis
    • N. Kranjcar
    • J. Defoe Yellow Card
    • P. Crouch Goal

    Subs

    • N. Kanu
    • G. Little
    • J. Ashdown
    • L. Diarra Substitution In66′
    • D. Nugent Substitution In76′
    • A. Traore
    • M. Wilson

    Injured

    • G. Johnson
    • Y. Kaboul

    Suspended

    None

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