Norwich City 3-2 Bolton Wanderers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 8 December 2018
Result
Norwich City 3-2 Bolton Wanderers
Championship · Saturday 8 December 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Norwich City 3-2 Bolton Wanderers: match report
Norwich City defeated Bolton Wanderers 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 8 December 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Mario Vrancic opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Norwich City's goals came from Mario Vrancic (39'), M. Stiepermann (59') and Teemu Pukki (90+3'). Bolton Wanderers scored through Sammy Ameobi (63') and Mark Beevers (88').
Discipline: Norwich City received 1 yellow card; Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Norwich City were 1st on 40 points from 20 and Bolton Wanderers 23rd on 18 points from 20. Norwich City went on to finish that season 1st with 94 points, and Bolton Wanderers 23rd with 32.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Mario Vrančić of Norwich City (8.3), ahead of Joe Williams (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Norwich City wins, 2 draws and 2 for Bolton Wanderers.
Key events
- 14'Yellow card · Sammy Ameobi
- 39'Goal · Mario Vrancic
- 59'Goal · M. Stiepermann
- 63'Goal · Sammy Ameobi
- 84'Yellow card · Gary O'Neil
- 86'Yellow card · Mario Vrancic
- 88'Goal · Mark Beevers
- 90+2'Second yellow · Sammy Ameobi
- 90+3'Goal · Teemu Pukki
Head-to-head
Team news
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tim Krul, Max Aarons, Christoph Zimmermann, Ben Godfrey, Jamal Lewis, Mario Vrančić, Alexander Tettey, Emiliano Buendía, Marco Stiepermann, Todd Cantwell, Teemu Pukki
Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Ben Alnwick, Paweł Olkowski, Jack Hobbs, Mark Beevers, Andrew Taylor, Joe Williams, Jason Lowe, Craig Noone, Sammy Ameobi, Will Buckley, Christian Doidge