Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 18 March 2006

Result

Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 18 March 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Bolton Wanderers · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Sunderland: match report

Bolton Wanderers defeated Sunderland 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 18 March 2006. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Kevin Davies opened the scoring in the 47th minute. Bolton Wanderers's goals came from Kevin Davies (47') and Kevin Nolan (85'). Sunderland did not score.

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 7th on 45 points from 27 and Sunderland 20th on 10 points from 29. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 8th with 56 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Bolton Wanderers win, 2 draws and 2 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 45'Yellow card · Kevin KyleSunderland
  • 47'Goal · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers · 1-0
  • 56'Yellow card · Rory DelapSunderland
  • 69'Yellow card · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers
  • 76'Yellow card · Gary BreenSunderland
  • 80'Yellow card · Reece BrownSunderland
  • 85'Goal · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers · 2-0

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 1, draws 2, Sunderland 2.

Team news

Bolton Wanderers line-up

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Joey O'Brien, Tal Ben Haim, Gary Speed, Stylianos Giannakopoulos, Augustine Okocha, Ricardo Vaz Té, Kevin Nolan, Bruno N'Gotty, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies

Sunderland line-up

George McCartney, Steven Caldwell, Nyron Nosworthy, Danny Collins, Daniel Smith, Dean Whitehead, Grant Leadbitter, Kevin Kyle, Kelvin Davis, Rory Delap, Tommy Miller