Bolton Wanderers 3 Manchester City 3: match report

12 December 2009 17:01
Losing, down to 10 men and play poorly, Manchester City managed to come back for a third time as Carlos Tevez's second goal extended their unbeaten run to 13 matches. [LNB]Bolton led through Ivan Klasnic, Gary Cahill and Klasnic again but each time City kept coming back and equalisers from Tevez, Micah Richards and, after Craig Bellamy had been sent off, Tevez earned City a point. [LNB]Hull City v Bolton Wanderers previewThere was plenty to fault in this performance, particularly their slow start and poor defending, but City provided answers to lingering questions about their character. [LNB]Following their miserable recent slump into the relegation zone, there was little doubting the pivotal feel of Bolton's consecutive home games and City and fellow strugglers West Ham and the players certainly began like they had got that message. [LNB]Chung-Yong Lee headed over with just a couple of minutes gone and although there was more than hint of offside about it, they deservedly took the lead with 10 minutes gone. Matthew Taylor's cross flew right across the City area and Lee's drilled cross was deflected by Sylvinho for Klasnic to touch in from a yard out. [LNB]Tamir Cohen missed with an overhead kick and Bolton were unfortunate that Richards was not penalised for a handball in the area but City slowly began to control the midfield area. [LNB]They were back on level terms just before the half hour with Tevez's third goal in three games. Craig Bellamy's low cross was flicked clear by Cahill, only as far as Tevez, who glided past Fabrice Muamba and hit a shot that kicked off Cohen and looped into Jussi Jaaskelainen's top corner. [LNB][LNB]City looked like they would run away with it, only for Cahill to restore Bolton's advantage with an effort of real quality. He was picked out on the edge of the area by Gretar Steinsson's quick throw and turned Stephen Ireland before curling a left-foot shot past Shay Given. [LNB][LNB]But again they were pegged back on the stroke of half time when a flowing City move saw Adebayor lay off for Bellamy and the Wales forward roll a perfectly-weighted pass through for Richards to finish. [LNB][LNB]Bolton came up with yet another response eight minutes after the restart as Paul Robinson swung in a cross from the left that was flicked on by Kevin Davies and Klasnic beat Joleon Lescott to the ball six yards out to prod in his second. [LNB][LNB]Bellamy went down under a challenge from Robinson and the referee Mark Clattenburg showed him a second yellow card. [LNB]But there was still more to come from Tevez, who latched onto Stephen Ireland's pass and hauled the visitors level once again with a left-foot cross-shot. [LNB][LNB]

Source: Telegraph