Blackburn Rovers 3-4 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 10 January 2004

Result

Blackburn Rovers 3-4 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 10 January 2004, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-2

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Blackburn Rovers 3-4 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Bolton Wanderers 3-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 10 January 2004. It was 3-2 at half-time.

Kevin Nolan opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Blackburn Rovers's goals came from Vratislav Gresko (3'), Dwight Yorke (24') and Andy Cole (34'). Bolton Wanderers scored through Kevin Nolan (1'), Youri Djorkaeff (43'), Stylianos Giannakopoulos (73') and Kevin Nolan (78').

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 15th on 22 points from 20 and Bolton Wanderers 13th on 23 points from 20. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 44 points, and Bolton Wanderers 8th with 53.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Blackburn Rovers wins, 5 draws and 0 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers · 0-1
  • 3'Goal · Vratislav GreskoBlackburn Rovers · 1-1
  • 22'Yellow card · Andy ColeBlackburn Rovers
  • 24'Goal · Dwight YorkeBlackburn Rovers · 2-1
  • 34'Goal · Andy ColeBlackburn Rovers · 3-1
  • 43'Goal · Youri DjorkaeffBolton Wanderers · 3-2
  • 50'Yellow card · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers
  • 55'Yellow card · Vratislav GreskoBlackburn Rovers
  • 57'Yellow card · Nicky HuntBolton Wanderers
  • 73'Goal · Stylianos GiannakopoulosBolton Wanderers · 3-3
  • 78'Goal · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers · 3-4
  • 84'Yellow card · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 0, draws 5, Bolton Wanderers 0.

Team news

Blackburn Rovers line-up

Lucas Neill, Vratislav Gresko, Martin Taylor, Tugay Kerimoglu, Paul Gallagher, Brett Emerton, Jonathan Douglas, Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke, Brad Friedel, Markus Babbel