Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 20 December 2008

Result

Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Portsmouth

Premier League · Saturday 20 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Portsmouth: match report

Bolton Wanderers won against Portsmouth 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 20 December 2008. The half-time score was 2-1.

Matthew Taylor opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Bolton Wanderers's goals came from Matthew Taylor (1') and Ricardo Wayne Gardner (3'). Portsmouth scored through Peter Crouch (20').

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card; Portsmouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 11th on 20 points from 17 and Portsmouth 8th on 23 points from 17. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 13th with 41 points, and Portsmouth 14th with 41.

Bolton Wanderers lined up in a 4-5-1 and Portsmouth in a 4-4-2.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Matthew TaylorBolton Wanderers · 1-0
  • 3'Goal · Ricardo Wayne GardnerBolton Wanderers · 2-0
  • 20'Goal · Peter CrouchPortsmouth · 2-1
  • 43'Yellow card · Jermain DefoePortsmouth
  • 67'Yellow card · Gretar Rafn SteinssonBolton Wanderers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 4, draws 2, Portsmouth 4.

Team news

Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-5-1)

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Gretar Steinsson, Andrew O'Brien, Jlloyd Samuel, Gavin McCann, Johan Elmander, Kevin Nolan, Gary Cahill, Matthew Taylor, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies

Portsmouth line-up (4-4-2)

Sylvain Distin, Noé Pamarot, Papa Diop, Niko Kranjčar, Richard Hughes, Sean Davis, Peter Crouch, David James, Hermann Hreidarsson, Jermain Defoe, Sulzeer Campbell