Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 29 August 2010

Result

Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Birmingham City

Premier League · Sunday 29 August 2010, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Birmingham City: match report

Bolton Wanderers drew with Birmingham City 2-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 29 August 2010. The half-time score was 0-1.

R. Johnson opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Bolton Wanderers's goals came from Kevin Davies (71', penalty) and R. Blake (81'). Birmingham City scored through R. Johnson (4') and Craig Gardner (51').

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 7th on 4 points from 2 and Birmingham City 8th on 4 points from 2. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 14th with 46 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 39.

Bolton Wanderers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Bolton Wanderers wins, 1 draw and 4 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · R. JohnsonBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 23'Yellow card · Lee BowyerBirmingham City
  • 36'Red card · Jussi JaaskelainenBolton Wanderers
  • 38'Yellow card · R. JohnsonBirmingham City
  • 51'Goal · Craig GardnerBirmingham City · 0-2
  • 71'Penalty goal · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers · 1-2
  • 72'Yellow card · Sebastian LarssonBirmingham City
  • 81'Goal · R. BlakeBolton Wanderers · 2-2
  • 83'Yellow card · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers
  • 89'Yellow card · Fabrice MuambaBolton Wanderers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 5, draws 1, Birmingham City 4.

Team news

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

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Gretar Steinsson, Zat Knight, Fabrice Muamba, Stuart Holden, Martin Petrov, Chung-yong Lee, Johan Elmander, Paul Robinson, Gary Cahill, Kevin Davies

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-1-1)

Ben Foster, Stephen Carr, Roger Johnson, Liam Ridgewell, Scott Dann, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Cameron Jerome, James McFadden, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson