Manchester City 6-2 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 18 October 2003

Result

Manchester City 6-2 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 18 October 2003, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Manchester City 6-2 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Manchester City beat Bolton Wanderers 6-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 18 October 2003. The half-time score was 1-1.

Kevin Nolan opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Shaun Wright-Phillips (27'), Sylvain Distin (48'), Shaun Wright-Phillips (56'), Nicolas Anelka (58') and Nicolas Anelka (72'). Bolton Wanderers scored through Kevin Nolan (25') and Iván Campo (60').

Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 6th on 12 points from 8 and Bolton Wanderers 15th on 8 points from 8. Manchester City went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Bolton Wanderers 8th with 53.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 0 draws and 1 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Yellow card · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers
  • 25'Goal · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers · 0-1
  • 27'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 1-1
  • 28'Yellow card · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City
  • 48'Goal · Sylvain DistinManchester City · 2-1
  • 56'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 3-1
  • 58'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 4-1
  • 60'Goal · Iván CampoBolton Wanderers · 4-2
  • 62'Second yellow · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City
  • 72'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 5-2

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Manchester City 1, draws 0, Bolton Wanderers 1.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

David Seaman, David Sommeil, Sylvain Distin, Michael Tarnat, Claudio Reyna, Steve McManaman, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Robbie Fowler, Sun Jihai, Joey Barton