Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Liverpool: result and report

Premier League · Monday 2 January 2006

Result

Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Liverpool

Premier League · Monday 2 January 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Liverpool: match report

Bolton Wanderers drew with Liverpool 2-2 in the Premier League on Monday 2 January 2006. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Radhi Jaïdi opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Bolton Wanderers's goals came from Radhi Jaïdi (10') and El-Hadji Diouf (71'). Liverpool scored through Steven Gerrard (67', penalty) and Luis García (82').

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards; Liverpool received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 7th on 31 points from 18 and Liverpool 3rd on 40 points from 18. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 8th with 56 points, and Liverpool 3rd with 82.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Bolton Wanderers wins, 2 draws and 4 for Liverpool.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Radhi JaïdiBolton Wanderers · 1-0
  • 38'Yellow card · Abdoulaye Diagne-FayéBolton Wanderers
  • 41'Yellow card · Peter CrouchLiverpool
  • 42'Yellow card · Jamie CarragherLiverpool
  • 48'Yellow card · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers
  • 58'Yellow card · Mohamed SissokoLiverpool
  • 67'Penalty goal · Steven GerrardLiverpool · 1-1
  • 71'Goal · El-Hadji DioufBolton Wanderers · 2-1
  • 82'Goal · Luis GarcíaLiverpool · 2-2

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 2, draws 2, Liverpool 4.

Team news

Bolton Wanderers line-up

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Joey O'Brien, Abdoulaye Faye, Gary Speed, Stylianos Giannakopoulos, El-Hadji Diouf, Kevin Nolan, Bruno N'Gotty, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies, Radhi Jaïdi

Liverpool line-up

Pepe Reina, Steve Finnan, Djimi Traoré, Jamie Carragher, Dietmar Hamann, Mohamed Sissoko, Peter Crouch, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Sami Hyypia, Harry Kewell, Steven Gerrard