Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 22 August 2018

Result

Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Wednesday 22 August 2018, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Bolton Wanderers 1-0 Birmingham City: match report

Bolton Wanderers won against Birmingham City 1-0 in the Championship on Wednesday 22 August 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Josh Magennis of Bolton Wanderers in the 73rd minute.

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 7th on 7 points from 3 and Birmingham City 20th on 2 points from 3. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 23rd with 32 points, and Birmingham City 14th with 61.

Bolton Wanderers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ben Alnwick of Bolton Wanderers (8.5), ahead of Maxime Colin (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Bolton Wanderers wins, 3 draws and 5 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Yellow card · Maikel KieftenbeldBirmingham City
  • 71'Yellow card · G. GardnerBirmingham City
  • 73'Goal · Josh MagennisBolton Wanderers · 1-0
  • 75'Yellow card · Will BuckleyBolton Wanderers
  • 83'Yellow card · Kristian PedersenBirmingham City
  • 87'Yellow card · Pawel OlkowskiBolton Wanderers

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 2, draws 3, Birmingham City 5.

Team news

Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Ben Alnwick, Paweł Olkowski, David Wheater, Mark Beevers, Andrew Taylor, Jason Lowe, Gary O'Neil, Craig Noone, Erhun Oztumer, Y. Wildschut, Josh Magennis

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

Lee Camp, Maxime Colin, Michael Morrison, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Jota Peleteiro, Gary Gardner, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Jacques Maghoma, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Omar Bogle