Birmingham City 2-1 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 2 April 2011

Result

Birmingham City 2-1 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 2 April 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Birmingham City 2-1 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Birmingham City defeated Bolton Wanderers 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 April 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.

K. Phillips opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from K. Phillips (4') and Craig Gardner (59'). Bolton Wanderers scored through Johan Elmander (71').

Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 19th on 31 points from 29 and Bolton Wanderers 7th on 40 points from 30. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 39 points, and Bolton Wanderers 14th with 46.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 2 draws and 5 for Bolton Wanderers.

Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Bolton Wanderers's L-W-D-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · K. PhillipsBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 18'Yellow card · D. WheaterBolton Wanderers
  • 53'Yellow card · Marcos AlonsoBolton Wanderers
  • 59'Goal · Craig GardnerBirmingham City · 2-0
  • 71'Goal · Johan ElmanderBolton Wanderers · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 3, draws 2, Bolton Wanderers 5.

Team news

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)

Ben Foster, Stephen Carr, Roger Johnson, Liam Ridgewell, Stuart Parnaby, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Kevin Phillips, Cameron Jerome, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson

Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-4-2)

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Gretar Steinsson, Marcos Alonso, David Wheater, Fabrice Muamba, Martin Petrov, Tamir Cohen, Johan Elmander, Gary Cahill, Kevin Davies, Daniel Sturridge