Bolton Wanderers 0-4 Chelsea: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 31 October 2009

Result

Bolton Wanderers 0-4 Chelsea

Premier League · Saturday 31 October 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Bolton Wanderers 0-4 Chelsea: match report

Bolton Wanderers lost to Chelsea 0-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 31 October 2009. The half-time score was 0-1.

Frank Lampard opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Bolton Wanderers did not score. Chelsea scored through Frank Lampard (44', penalty), Deco (61'), an own goal by Zat Knight (82') and Didier Drogba (90').

Discipline: Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Chelsea received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Bolton Wanderers were 12th on 11 points from 9 and Chelsea 1st on 24 points from 10. Bolton Wanderers went on to finish that season 14th with 39 points, and Chelsea 1st with 86.

Bolton Wanderers lined up in a 4-3-3 and Chelsea in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Bolton Wanderers wins, 3 draws and 7 for Chelsea.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 44'Penalty goal · Frank LampardChelsea · 0-1
  • 44'Red card · Jlloyd SamuelBolton Wanderers
  • 56'Yellow card · Paul RobinsonBolton Wanderers
  • 61'Goal · DecoChelsea · 0-2
  • 79'Yellow card · Paulo FerreiraChelsea
  • 82'Own goal · Zat KnightChelsea · 0-3
  • 90'Goal · Didier DrogbaChelsea · 0-4

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bolton Wanderers 0, draws 3, Chelsea 7.

Team news

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

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Zat Knight, Chris Basham, Jlloyd Samuel, Fabrice Muamba, Tamir Cohen, Chung-yong Lee, Johan Elmander, Gary Cahill, Kevin Davies, Samuel Ricketts

Chelsea expected line-up (4-3-3)

Petr Čech, John Terry, Alex, Ashley Cole, John Mikel Obi, Michael Essien, Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka, Didier Drogba