Bolton Wanderers versus Manchester City – Match Review: English Premier League
Bolton Wanderers played out an interesting tie against Manchester City on Sunday, 21st of August 2011 at the Reebok stadium as both the teams approached the match in a positive manner. Owen Coyle set out an offensive
looking outfit with Petrov on the wings. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gary-Cahill-c14439 in central defence with Jaaskelainen
in goal. On the other hand, Manchester City’s formation resembled a 4-4-2 setup with Edin Dzeko and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-c33030 Aguero in attack.
In the midfield department, Yaya Toure played along with the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vincent-Kompany-c36184 resumed their partnership whilst Kolarov and Richards started in wide
positions. In between the goal posts, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Joe-Hart-c18699 was given his traditional role. Manchester City started the match on the front foot with their slick movement assisted by David Silva’s uncanny knack of finding spaces in behind the back four.
In the 15th minute of the match, City carved open Bolton’s defence like knife through butter as Silva played in Kolarov down the left hand side. The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/James-Milner-c17706 whose
finish from inside the Bolton penalty area was parried away by Jaaskelainen. In the 26th minute, disaster struck for Bolton as Jaaskelainen made a horrible mistake in between the goal posts. The veteran goalkeeper allowed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Silva-c10601’s long ranged
effort to sneak past him with ease despite the fact that he had it well covered.
His lack of judgement with regard to the flight of the ball meant that City took the lead as the score line reached 1-0. City added another goal in the 37th minute through http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gareth-Barry-c14423’s long range effort but Bolton
soon pulled one back in the 39th minute when Klasnic netted the home team’s first goal of the encounter. At the start of the second half, Dzeko restored Manchester City’s two goal advantage as he pounced on a mistake by Knight.
The former Wolfsburg striker outmuscled the Bolton centre back and then slotted the ball home to bring the score line to 3-1. Bolton netted their second goal courtesy of a fine header by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Kevin-Davies-c20716 in the 63rd minute
but the home team were not unable to complete their come back as Manchester City eventually held out to gain all three points against Owen Coyle’s men at the Reebok Stadium.
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