Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Manchester United: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2006

Result

Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Manchester United

Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Bolton Wanderers 1-2 Manchester United: match report

Bolton Wanderers lost to Manchester United 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 April 2006. The half-time score was 1-1.

Kevin Davies opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Bolton Wanderers's goal came from Kevin Davies (26'). Manchester United scored through Louis Saha (33') and Ruud van Nistelrooy (79').

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card; Manchester United received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 7th on 48 points from 29 and Manchester United 2nd on 69 points from 31. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 8th with 56 points, and Manchester United 2nd with 83.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Goal · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers · 1-0
  • 33'Goal · Louis SahaManchester United · 1-1
  • 72'Yellow card · Cristiano RonaldoManchester United
  • 79'Goal · Ruud van NistelrooyManchester United · 1-2
  • 82'Yellow card · Wayne RooneyManchester United
  • 90'Yellow card · Abdoulaye Diagne-FayéBolton Wanderers

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 2, draws 2, Manchester United 5.

Team news

Bolton Wanderers line-up

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Joey O'Brien, Abdoulaye Faye, Tal Ben Haim, Gary Speed, Stylianos Giannakopoulos, Augustine Okocha, Henrik Pedersen, Kevin Nolan, Bruno N'Gotty, Kevin Davies

Manchester United expected line-up

Edwin van der Sar, Mikaël Silvestre, Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alan Smith, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, John O'Shea