Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006

Result

Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Manchester City: match report

Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 21 January 2006. The half-time score was 2-0.

Jared Borgetti Echavarria opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Bolton Wanderers's goals came from Jared Borgetti Echavarria (37') and Kevin Nolan (41'). Manchester City did not score.

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 7th on 33 points from 20 and Manchester City 8th on 31 points from 22. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 8th with 56 points, and Manchester City 15th with 43.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Bolton Wanderers wins, 0 draws and 4 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 37'Goal · Jared Borgetti EchavarriaBolton Wanderers · 1-0
  • 41'Goal · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers · 2-0
  • 58'Yellow card · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers
  • 86'Yellow card · Sun JihaiManchester City
  • 88'Yellow card · Tal Ben HaimBolton Wanderers
  • 90'Yellow card · Trevor SinclairManchester City

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 3, draws 0, Manchester City 4.

Team news

Bolton Wanderers line-up

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Joey O'Brien, Tal Ben Haim, Stylianos Giannakopoulos, Iván Campo, Khalilou Fadiga, Jared Borgetti Echavarria, Kevin Nolan, Bruno N'Gotty, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies

Manchester City line-up

Sylvain Distin, Richard Dunne, Stephen Jordan, Albert Riera, Trevor Sinclair, Stephen Ireland, Andy Cole, Darius Vassell, David James, Joey Barton, Sun Jihai