Bolton Wanderers 2–3 Cardiff City

BOTBolton

2–3

Full Time

CARCardiff

Gary Madine 17′ · assist Casado
D. Dervite 71′ · assist Emile Heskey

Tony Watt 13′ · assist Scott Malone
Scott Malone 53′
Alberto Suárez 80′ · assist K. Jones

Saturday 5 December at 15:00 · Toughsheet Community Stadium · Referee Tony Harrington

Match stats

47%Possession53%

18Shots16

5Shots on target7

4Corners5

393Passes426

70%Pass accuracy

How it happened

13′Tony Watt · assist Scott Malone · away
17′Gary Madine · assist Casado · home
23′Fábio on for Lee Peltier · away
41′Casado · home
53′Scott Malone · away
69′Stephen Dobbie on for Dean Moxey · home
69′Darren Pratley · home

Line-ups

Bolton4-4-24-4-2Cardiff

Next meetingBolton Wanderers v Cardiff CitySat, 25 Oct 2025

Previous meetings · last 5

3

Bolton

1

Draws

1

Cardiff

73%

4Saves3

3Offsides2

3Yellow cards2

1Red cards0

70′Emile Heskey on for Shola Ameobi · home

71′D. Dervite · assist Emile Heskey · home

80′Alberto Suárez · assist K. Jones · away

85′Sammy Ameobi on for Alberto Suárez · away

88′Fábio · away

88′K. Dikgacoi on for Tony Watt · away

89′Matthew Connolly · away

90+1′Casado · home

90+4′Filip Twardzik on for Liam Feeney · home

BOTBolton4-4-2

1Ben Amos
6Josh Vela
4Dorian Dervite
31David Wheater
20José Manuel CasadoA
7Liam Feeney▾ 90+4′ (Twardzik on)
21Darren Pratley
18Neil Danns
3Dean Moxey▾ 69′ (Dobbie on)
14Gary Madine
26Shola Ameobi

19Emile HeskeyA▴ 70′ for Ameobi

27Filip Twardzik▴ 90+4′ for Feeney

Bench: Prince Gouano, Jay Spearing, Paul Rachubka, Stephen Dobbie, Rob Holding

CARCardiff4-4-2

1Txiki Acaz
2Lee Peltier▾ 23′ (Fábio on)
4Sean Morrison
16Matthew Connolly
28Scott MaloneA
11Craig Noone
17Aron Gunnarsson
8Joe Ralls
13Anthony Pilkington
33Tony Watt▾ 88′ (Dikgacoi on)
9Kenwyne Jones

3Fábio▴ 23′ for Peltier

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Bolton Wanderers

Nov 2012Bolton Wanderers2–1Cardiff City

We go again

38Sammy Ameobi▴ 85′ for Suárez

Bench: Bruno Ecuele Manga, Peter Whittingham, Joe Mason, Kagisho Dikgacoi, Simon Moore