Burma 0 – 1 Bolton

Bolton records his first win in eight attempts in the Sky Bet championship

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Summary of Sky Bet Championship matches between Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers

Callum Connolly took advantage of indulgent refereeing to dismiss Bolton struggling with a 1-0 win over Birmingham at St Andrew's.

The Wanderers recorded their first win in eight games in the Sky Bet Championship after the 21-year-old received a yellow card for only one of the two challenges late in as many minutes of the second half, before scoring the only goal of the match a few moments later.

A monotonous contest lacked both quality and odds, but the visitors were rightly rewarded for their brave and disciplined display.

The hosts were unchanged from their spectacular 4-3 victory at QPR on Saturday, as Bolton made three changes in the team that had suffered a fifth loss in six league games against Preston. Mark Beevers was coming back from injury and recalled Pawel Olkowski and Clayton Donaldson.

After 13 minutes of play, Lukas Jutkiewicz gave Bolton goaltender Remi Matthews the first shot and seven minutes later, Blues midfielder Maikel Kieftenbeld led by 25 meters.

In the 36th minute, Donaldson and Josh Magennis, Bolton, were offended by a long ball and Craig Noone's shot from the edge of the box had to be saved by Lee Camp in an intelligent way before the goal was over. former Cardiff player does not let another effort.

Che Adams found Jutkiewicz on a very well-focused center six minutes before the break, but the 28-year-old could only deflect the ball to the top of the net as he tended.

Bolton won a rare victory in Birmingham

The hosts might have played out in the first half, but Gary Gardner was unsteady when the ball fell to the edge of the field and he was totally out of bounds.

David Wheater's header after a Luke Murphy corner after the break sowed chaos in the hosts' defense, the ball eventually spun behind, while Marc Wilson was leading the play from Murphy.

Birmingham should have taken advantage after 62 minutes when the bustling Adams found Jota in the space just outside the penalty area, but Matthews shifted his shot just wide of the wood.

Referee Andy Davies decided not to book Connolly for a late challenge against Kerim Mrabti in the middle of the second half, but he was given a yellow card two minutes later when goalkeeper Everton made a mistake on Wes Harding.

Bolton made the breakthrough in the 71st minute when Donaldson – who had been threatening his former club forever – won the free-kick on the right and Connolly led Murphy's goal past Camp.

Gardner took a free-kick on the opposing goal, but the Blues were not able to turn a late domination into an equalizer, even though their hopes for the game were equal. stroke.

Managers

Garry Monk: "We have to be frustrated and disappointed – our performance with the ball was less than what it should have been – Che put them away for fun but you look back and the goalkeeper dipped early, and luckily for him there took the right path.

"Nine times out of 10, it ends up in the net, we fought to the end, but you have to make the most of those few opportunities when Bolton came to play as he did."

Phil Parkinson: "It was important to react (to Saturday's result) .It was a performance full of fun – each of them rushed into the ground.

"They did not play for 45 minutes or 60 minutes, they held until the end Saturday was a disappointment, but it was a full, engaged and typical show of Bolton Wanderers."

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