Bolton 1-2 Wigan

Massive game - but will we bottle it?

What do you think?

We can't afford to bottle it with Chelsea away the next game. I think the pressure will be on Wigan as well so I reckon we should just about scrape through and get all three points.

In my opinion Wigan and Blackburn are already doomed! If we don't beat Wigan, then we might aswell just resign ourselves to the inevitable. Saying that, I think we will beat Wigan, maybe by just the odd goal.

I think we'll win 2-1.

Saying today with my mate, MUST win game, no excuses, gotta WIN.

I think we will win but it will all depend on how the players react to losing today when they played so well against Arsenal and Liverpool.



3-0 Bolton

Must win game is an over used cliche but this really is it. If we can't beat Wigan does anyone believe we can still avoid relegation? A draw is not good enough.

After the Norwich disaster we need three points. 3-1 to us hopefully !

Knowing Coyle, he'll change the starting line up on account of the result at Norwich, not understanding that it was his substitutions that lost us the match, not the starting line up.

If Davies starts, I plan to boo from start to finish!

We were better with Davies.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:We were better with Davies.

I don't think we were Hipster. Let's put it this way. Coyle brought Davies on to exploit the fact that Norwich lost both their centre backs to injury. His logic being that Davies would make mincemeat of the new much smaller centre half pairing. At that point the score was 0-0.

Result of substitution: We lose 2-0 and don't create a single chance of note.

We didn't create anything before he came on, and i mean strictly going forward by the way, he won everything up top and allowed us to get more crosses into the box.

unfortunately they all went out for goal kicks or straight to the GK.

it weakened us at the back but anyone saying Davies was useless didn't watch the game, he improved us going forward

It was an unsuccessful gamble and the wrong player was subbed.

For a few minutes it looked as though BKDs presence, if not his contribution might make a difference but taking off Muamba instead of Eagles who was having a shocker handed the midfield and ultimately the game to Norwich.

I question whether going for the win when an away draw was on the cards was advisable anyway. Norwich were forced to make two subs without changing anything. If OC had kept his nerve, Lambert may well have taken the gamble and thrown on another attacker first which could have played into our hands.

We didn't offer much going forward up until the substitutions but that was largely due to the wastefulness of Eagles and the fact that the players seemed incapable of putting in the extra yards to join the attack after their outstanding effort against Arsenal.

There was no doubt we needed fresh legs, but Eagles should have been the one sacrificed. I don't have an issue with BKD coming on if we'd stuck with 451 but BKDs instincts drag him up top making a 442 which doesn't work for us. We know BKD can play in midfield/tackle back etc and if he'd stuck to the task it might have come off, but he piled forward and Ngog became superfluous.

Alternatively he could have subbed both Eagles and Ngog with BKD playing up top and someone else working the wing but he didn't, the midfield was surrendered and we paid the price.

BTW our season could rest on the Wigan game IMO.

if we're still within a couple of points of wolves & qpr after the man city game we will stay up. our run-in is much easier than those teams around us.

Culcheth_White wrote:In my opinion Wigan and Blackburn are already doomed!

You fool, Rovers will finally sack Keane this week and bring in someone with half a brain.

Rovers will finish mid table.

The problem for any incumbent at Blackburn is that the transfer window has shut and he is stuck with the players he has got.

I don't blame Keane. It's the players fault for eating all that cholestrol filled shite. Instead of a new manager they need to employ a nutritional dietician.

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hmmmmmm !!!!!!

here u are, R.T......

Hello and welcome Dar, what took you so long!

Seriously I hope you are safe and well - things don't sound too good in Nigeria right now.

I feel very confident for this game, which usually ends in failure whenever I get a good feeling about Bolton playing.



3-0 Bolton with Mark davies (2) and Petrov.

Nice comfortable game me thinks...4-1 Reo-Coker, Eagles, Wheater, Sordell then an own goal from Zat Knight!