The Reebok Stadium will celebrate Premier League match time, on Sunday, August 21, when Bolton host Manchester City in what promises to be an intriguing game between two teams who won their opening matches by an identical margin of 4-0.
In their opening game of the current Premiership campaign, Bolton visited Loftus Road to meet newly promoted Queens Park Rangers.
QPR gave a reasonable account of themselves and the match remained scoreless in the first 44 minutes. In fact, the home side were unlucky when Campbell’s early strike was disallowed. On the stroke of half-time, Bolton took the lead through Gary Cahill who put the ball in the top left corner of the net after feeding off a pass from Chris Eagles.
QPR went to pieces, literally, in the second half after Gabbidon deflected a shot by Eagles into his own goal, on 67 minutes. Three minutes later, Ivan Klasnic latched onto a deflected effort from Bradley Orr and drilled the ball home to make it 3-0. Fabrice Mumba completed the tally, with 10 minutes to go to regulation time.
The biggest plus for Bolton was Gary Cahill whose pace and timing would make him an asset to any team of the Premiership.
If before the game against Swansea, Mancini had meditated on life after Tevez, after the game, he would have forgotten his concerns, following a brilliant showing from his latest marquee signing Aguero. Aguero’s brace helped sweep Swansea aside, in a second half that witnessed the Premier League debutants blown off the pitch much as QPR were, against Bolton.
Dzeko put Mancini’s wards ahead on 57 minutes, after Silva had done the initial spade work running with the ball from deep inside his own half to the edge of Swansea’s box. Silva fed the ball out wide to Johnson whose shot was parried by Swansea keeper Vorm, and Dzeko was on hand to put the ball into the net, on reflex.
It was now that Mancini decided to unleash Aguero who soon latched onto a Micah Richards cross in a slide that pushed the ball into the Swansea net to make it 2-0 to City. Aguero followed it up with an assist that enabled Silva to spore City’s third goal of the game.
A stunning 30 yard strike, in injury time, was the icing on the cake for Aguero whose presence has excited the collective imagination among City’s supporters. With their defence as string as it is, Aguero lends City’s midfield the aggression that it lacked for the most part of the last season. Surely, on the strength of the evidence against Swansea, City must be considered serious challengers for the title.
Bolton will need all of their home supporters’ backing to contend with a forward line that could include both Aguero and Tevez, in what appears to be a mouth-watering prospect for football fans.
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