Newcastle United 3-1 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 4 March 2006

Result

Newcastle United 3-1 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 4 March 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Newcastle United 3-1 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Newcastle United defeated Bolton Wanderers 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 March 2006. The half-time score was 2-0.

N. Solano opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Newcastle United's goals came from N. Solano (34'), A. Shearer (45') and Shola Ameobi (70'). Bolton Wanderers scored through Kevin Davies (72').

Discipline: Newcastle United received 2 yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Newcastle United were 11th on 36 points from 27 and Bolton Wanderers 6th on 42 points from 25. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Bolton Wanderers 8th with 56.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Goal · N. SolanoNewcastle United · 1-0
  • 45'Goal · A. ShearerNewcastle United · 2-0
  • 60'Yellow card · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers
  • 70'Goal · Shola AmeobiNewcastle United · 3-0
  • 72'Goal · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers · 3-1
  • 80'Yellow card · A. ShearerNewcastle United
  • 90'Yellow card · Albert LuqueNewcastle United

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Newcastle United 4, draws 1, Bolton Wanderers 4.

Team news

Newcastle United line-up

Shay Given, Robbie Elliott, Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong, Peter Ramage, Celestine Babayaro, Charles N'Zogbia, Shola Ameobi, N. Solano, Emre Belözoğlu, Alan Shearer, Scott Parker

Bolton Wanderers line-up

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Joey O'Brien, Abdoulaye Faye, Gary Speed, Stylianos Giannakopoulos, Augustine Okocha, Kevin Nolan, Bruno N'Gotty, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies, Radhi Jaïdi