The Penalty Box Dancer
Player Valuation: £35m
BOLTON PICK UP LONG AWAITED WIN
A much needed win to give Bolton Wanderers a boost in their bid for Championship survival. Swansea City came to Bolton three points cleae of The Trotters and looked the side more likely to take the lead. Bolton defended very well with Bellusci, Osede and Gibson all contributing together to keep the ball away from danger. Ben Amos really called into action with the majority of the Swansea shots being off target. Erhun Oztumer was back in his favoured no.10 role playing behind on-loan striker Joao Pedro and the playmaker was on top form creating chances for team-mates but no goals seemed on the agenda. It got to late on in the game when winger Sean Robertson saw Oztumer making a run through the Swansea back line and played a cut throat ball right into his path taking two Swansea defenders out the game. Oztumer was unlikely to miss and belted the ball into the back of the net. Bolton fans looked on in disbelief as their side had taken a rare lead. Ferguson decided to start to keep things tight and adopted a no nonsense approach, Oztumer dropping deeper in midfield playing as a three with Batty and Docherty. Swansea upped the pressure but a superb defensive display from Bolton managed to be enough to give Wanderers a hard fought victory. The fans, relieved at the final whistle sang their hearts out for the eleven out on the field. Choruses of 'Bolton til I die; brought a smile to players faces who rallied the 16000 in attendance.
DF: Pleased to get the win and to show we are not done yet. It was nail biting but we dug in deep and pulled out a very good performance. One game at a time, that's all we are going to do. Our aim is to make this a hard place for teams to come, Swansea hammered us at times but we coped well with it.
Bolton have a tough away fixture to Leeds United coming up. The last time these two sides met it ended in a 1-1 draw with Sean Robertson getting on the scoresheet.
A much needed win to give Bolton Wanderers a boost in their bid for Championship survival. Swansea City came to Bolton three points cleae of The Trotters and looked the side more likely to take the lead. Bolton defended very well with Bellusci, Osede and Gibson all contributing together to keep the ball away from danger. Ben Amos really called into action with the majority of the Swansea shots being off target. Erhun Oztumer was back in his favoured no.10 role playing behind on-loan striker Joao Pedro and the playmaker was on top form creating chances for team-mates but no goals seemed on the agenda. It got to late on in the game when winger Sean Robertson saw Oztumer making a run through the Swansea back line and played a cut throat ball right into his path taking two Swansea defenders out the game. Oztumer was unlikely to miss and belted the ball into the back of the net. Bolton fans looked on in disbelief as their side had taken a rare lead. Ferguson decided to start to keep things tight and adopted a no nonsense approach, Oztumer dropping deeper in midfield playing as a three with Batty and Docherty. Swansea upped the pressure but a superb defensive display from Bolton managed to be enough to give Wanderers a hard fought victory. The fans, relieved at the final whistle sang their hearts out for the eleven out on the field. Choruses of 'Bolton til I die; brought a smile to players faces who rallied the 16000 in attendance.
DF: Pleased to get the win and to show we are not done yet. It was nail biting but we dug in deep and pulled out a very good performance. One game at a time, that's all we are going to do. Our aim is to make this a hard place for teams to come, Swansea hammered us at times but we coped well with it.
Bolton have a tough away fixture to Leeds United coming up. The last time these two sides met it ended in a 1-1 draw with Sean Robertson getting on the scoresheet.
