Bolton Wanderers remain unbeaten in the Championship after a 1-0 win over Birmingham City. The match followed a familiar pattern that seems to be emerging this season – as in every league game we’ve played it was level at half-time before we won through a goal officially credited to Will Buckley.
Changes were made from Saturday’s win at Reading – Erhun Oztumer got his first Championship action, while Yanic Wildschut and Gary O’Neil came in too. Josh Vela, Luke Murphy and Will Buckley all came out of the side, while Sammy Ameobi would eventually come off the bench.
Birmingham edged the possession while they also had more shots on and off target. The goal was the first against Blues since October 2014 and puts us third in the Championship with Leeds and Middlesbrough only ahead of us on goal difference.
Bolton subs:
Buckley replaced Wildschut (61)
Ameobi replaced Noone (62)
Donaldson replaced Oztumer (85)
Birmingham subs:
Adams replaced Jutkiewicz (77)
Solomon-Otabor replaced Maghoma (81)
University of Bolton Stadium
Championship
22/08/2018 9:00 pm
Attendance: 13821
Referee: Lee Probert
| Bolton Wanderers | Birmingham City | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckley | |||||||
| Ben Alnwick | Lee Camp | ||||||
| Pawel Olkowski | Maxime Colin | ||||||
| David Wheater | Michael Morrison | ||||||
| Mark Beevers | Harlee Dean | ||||||
| Andy Taylor | Kristian Pedersen | ||||||
| Jason Lowe | Jota | ||||||
| Gary O'Neil | Gary Gardner | ||||||
| Craig Noone | Maikel Kieftenbeld | ||||||
| Erhun Oztumer | Jacques Maghoma | ||||||
| Yanic Wildschut | Lukas Jutkiewicz | ||||||
| Josh Magennis | Omar Bogle | ||||||
Substitutes |
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| Remi Matthews | Connal Trueman | ||||||
| Mark Little | Marc Roberts | ||||||
| Josh Vela | Connor Mahoney | ||||||
| Clayton Donaldson | Che Adams | ||||||
| Sammy Ameobi | Viv Solomon-Otabor | ||||||
| Will Buckley | Charlie Lakin | ||||||
| Marc Wilson | Wes Harding | ||||||
Game Statistics |
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| 8 | Goal attempts | 18 |
| 4 | On Target | 6 |
| 3 | Corners | 10 |
| 11 | Fouls | 15 |
| 2 | Yellow Cards | 3 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 48 | % | 52 |