Manchester City 4-2 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 15 December 2007

Result

Manchester City 4-2 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 15 December 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Manchester City 4-2 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Manchester City won against Bolton Wanderers 4-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 December 2007. The half-time score was 1-2.

Rolando Bianchi opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Rolando Bianchi (7'), Dietmar Hamann (48'), Darius Vassell (77') and Kelvin Etuhu (90+3'). Bolton Wanderers scored through El-Hadji Diouf (31') and Kevin Nolan (40').

Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 6th on 30 points from 16 and Bolton Wanderers 14th on 14 points from 16. Manchester City went on to finish that season 9th with 55 points, and Bolton Wanderers 16th with 37.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Manchester City wins, 1 draw and 5 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Rolando BianchiManchester City · 1-0
  • 31'Goal · El-Hadji DioufBolton Wanderers · 1-1
  • 40'Goal · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers · 1-2
  • 48'Goal · Dietmar HamannManchester City · 2-2
  • 75'Yellow card · Kevin NolanBolton Wanderers
  • 77'Goal · Darius VassellManchester City · 3-2
  • 90+3'Goal · Kelvin EtuhuManchester City · 4-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester City 4, draws 1, Bolton Wanderers 5.

Team news

Manchester City line-up (4-4-2)

Andreas Isaksson, Micah Richards, Michael Ball, Vedran Ćorluka, Richard Dunne, Michael Johnson, Martin Petrov, Dietmar Hamann, Gelson Fernandes, Rolando Bianchi, Darius Vassell

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

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Nicky Hunt, Abdoulaye Meite, Ľubomír Michalík, Iván Campo, Danny Guthrie, El-Hadji Diouf, Nicolas Anelka, Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies