Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Shrewsbury Town: result and report
League One · Monday 26 December 2016
Result
Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Shrewsbury Town
League One · Monday 26 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Shrewsbury Town: match report
Bolton Wanderers defeated Shrewsbury Town 2-1 in the League One on Monday 26 December 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.
D. Wheater opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Bolton Wanderers's goals came from D. Wheater (24') and D. Wheater (28'). Shrewsbury Town scored through Junior Brown (84').
Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received no yellow cards; Shrewsbury Town received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 3rd on 43 points from 22 and Shrewsbury Town 21st on 21 points from 22. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 2nd with 86 points, and Shrewsbury Town 18th with 51.
Going into the match Bolton Wanderers's last five read L-W-W-W-W and Shrewsbury Town's W-W-D-L-L.
Key events
- 24'Goal · D. Wheater
- 28'Goal · D. Wheater
- 84'Goal · Junior Brown
- 89'Yellow card · Kevin Nolan
Team news
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Bolton Wanderers line-up
Ben Alnwick, Mark Beevers, Andrew Taylor, Lawrie Wilson, David Wheater, Tom Thorpe, Josh Vela, Jay Spearing, Zach Clough, Sammy Ameobi, Gary Madine
Shrewsbury Town line-up
Jayson Leutwiler, Matt Sadler, Javier Klimowicz, Junior Brown, Jack Grimmer, Dominic Smith, Ian Blackstone, Abumere Tafadzwa Ogogo, Louis Dodds, Jim O'Brien, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake