Manchester City 0-2 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 23 December 2006

Result

Manchester City 0-2 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 23 December 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Manchester City 0-2 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Manchester City lost to Bolton Wanderers 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 23 December 2006. The half-time score was 0-2.

Nicolas Anelka opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Manchester City did not score. Bolton Wanderers scored through Nicolas Anelka (8') and Nicolas Anelka (25').

Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Bolton Wanderers received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 14th on 20 points from 18 and Bolton Wanderers 5th on 30 points from 18. Manchester City went on to finish that season 14th with 42 points, and Bolton Wanderers 7th with 56.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Manchester City wins, 0 draws and 4 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaBolton Wanderers · 0-1
  • 25'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaBolton Wanderers · 0-2
  • 43'Yellow card · P. DickovManchester City
  • 70'Yellow card · El-Hadji DioufBolton Wanderers
  • 75'Yellow card · Abdoulaye Diagne-FayéBolton Wanderers
  • 81'Yellow card · N. HuntBolton Wanderers
  • 87'Red card · Joey BartonManchester City

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Manchester City 4, draws 0, Bolton Wanderers 4.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Nicky Weaver, Ben Thatcher, Sylvain Distin, Nedum Onuoha, Richard Dunne, Hatem Trabelsi, Stephen Ireland, Darius Vassell, Ishmael Miller, Joey Barton, Paul Dickov

Bolton Wanderers line-up

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Nicky Hunt, Abdoulaye Meite, Abdoulaye Faye, Tal Ben Haim, Gary Speed, Iván Campo, Henrik Pedersen, El-Hadji Diouf, Nicolas Anelka, Kevin Nolan