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  • Kick-off: 12:45
  • Venue: Reebok Stadium
  • Attendance: 25061
  • Referee: Dowd, P

Live Commentary

90mins

A convinving home victory for Sam Allardyce's team with a goal in each half from Speed and Campo while Liverpool will be left rueing their numerous missed chances.

90mins

Liverpool are putting Bolotn under increased pressure in the dying minutes as they desperately try to get something from the game.

88mins

Vaz Te attempts a shot from 25 yards but Carragher is there to block the ball as Liverpool break.

87mins

El-Hadji Diouf is replaced by Stelios Giannakopoulos.

86mins

The pace of Gerrard catches the Bolton defence off guard as he bursts through to fire a shot at goal but drags it wide.

84mins

Nicolas Anelka is substituted for Ricardo Vaz Te.

82mins

Crouch needs to be careful as he clashes again with Nolan as he is already on a yellow card.

80mins

The away fans are incensed as Tal Ben Haim brings down Steve Finnan by the corner flag. Alonso curls the resutling free kick into the box but it comes to nothing as Bolton clear.

78mins

Garcia handballs in Bolton's penalty area, conceding a free kick.

76mins

A curling effort from Garcia is spilled by Jaaskelainen but he manages to recover as Bellamy bears down on goal.

75mins

Mohamed Sissoko is taken off as Boudewijn Zenden comes on in his place.

74mins

Crouch is booked for a poor challenge on Gary Speed.

71mins

The ball runs free for Riise and shoots first time but gets under the ball and sends it soaring over the bar.

69mins

Gerrard puts a deep cross into the box but Faye is there again to cut out the danger for Bolton.

67mins

Sissoko shoots from the left 25 yards out but it is charged down by Faye.

65mins

A long range effort by Alonso is dealt with well by Jaaskelainen.

63mins

Hyypia plays himsefl into trouble and loses out to Nolan who puts an excellent cross into the box but it is just too close to Reina who plucks it out of the air.

61mins

Substitute Garcia does really well as he takes the ball to the byline and cuts it back across the face of goal from a tight angle but Diouf is there to cut out the danger.

59mins

Rafael Benitez replaces Jermaine Pennant with Luis Garcia.

57mins

Campo swings a free kick into the penalty area but no one meets it allowing Reina to catch it.

55mins

Liverpool take a corenr quickly and catch Bolton napping as Alonso is left totally unmarked and allowed to get a shot in but he sends it massively off target.

53mins

Bellamy bursts through on goal but the flag is raised for offside against him.

51mins

2-0 Campo doubles Bolton's lead with a superb close range header from a pinpoint cross by Davies on 51 mins.

49mins

Liverpool make their change of the game as Peter Crouch comes on in place of Dirk Kuyt who looks to still be struggling with his first half head injury.

48mins

The goalscorer Spped is put in the book for a late challenge.

46mins

The second half gets underway as Liverpool go in search of an equaliser.

45mins

HALF TIME: BOLTON WANDERERS 1-0 LIVERPOOL: The whistle goes for half-time and Bolotn go in a goal to the good which came from their only real chance of the half while Liverpool could have equalised on a number of occasions.

45mins

Jaaskelainen does not deal well with a left footed curling shot from Gerrard and the ball runs free for Bellamy before the Bolton keeper recovers.

44mins

Hyypia clears off the line from Davies but the referee had already blown for a foul on Reina.

42mins

Campo goes close with a free kick but cannot keep it down to trouble Reina.

40mins

Gerrard shoots but it is straight at Jaaskelainen who parries it away.

38mins

Liverpool scream for a penalty for a push on Kuyt in the box by Campo but the referee waves their appeals away.

37mins

Riise bursts down the left and gets to the byline to cut the ball back across the face of goal towards Pennant but Faye just gets his head to it.

36mins

Gerrard sends a deep cross into the box but Hunt is there to block it.

33mins

Riise takes a long throw and sens it towards the penalty area but it bobbles past everyone into the arms of Jaaskelainen.

31mins

Speed puts in a vital last minute challenge to save a goal for Bolton as an unmarked Pennant lines up a shot.

29mins

BOLTON WANDERERS 1-0 LIVERPOOL (SPEED): Campo tees up the free kick for Speed who smashes the ball at goal and sends Reina the wrong way to open the scoring on his 750th club career appearance on 29 mins.

28mins

Bolton win a free kick on the edge of the area.

26mins

Riise tries to switch the run of play by sending a crossfield pass towards Pennant on the right but he does not get it on target and finds Davies instead.

24mins

A clash of heads between Faye and Kuyt sees the Liverpool player leave the field temporarily for some stitches.

22mins

Nolan is penalised for catching Gerrard on the follow thorugh deep into Liverpool's half.

20mins

Xabi Alonso unleashes a beautifully struck shot from 25 yards that catches the outside of the left post.

19mins

Campo attempts to thread his pass through to Hunt but he is closed down quickly by Hypia who watches the ball back to Reina.

17mins

Worried faces on the Liverpool bench as Gerrard appears to be limping and clutching his leg but he signals that he can continue.

16mins

Faye is booked for his collision with Gerrard.

15mins

Gerrard is incensed by a clumsy challenge by Abdoulaye Faye who concedes a free kick.

14mins

Hunt crosses into the box for Nolan but he can't get his head on it.

12mins

Pennant tees the ball up for Riise who finds plenty of room on the left to curl a shot on goal but drags it wide on the right.

10mins

Nolan fires his free kick straight into the wall allowing Reina to make an easy claim.

9mins

Anelka takes on 3 Liverpool defenders and wins a free kick in a dangerous area 30 yards out.

7mins

Bellamy shoots from the left of the penalty area but sends it just wide of the left upright.

6mins

Anelka goes on a good solo run and gets to the edge of the penalty area but tries to take the ball too far enabling Carragher to cushion it back to Jose Reina.

5mins

Riise finds Gerrard with a short throw and the Liverpool captain turns quickly to whip the ball into the box for Pennant who chests it down for Kuyt but he doesn't make contact.

3mins

Nicolas Anelka collides with Mohamed Sissoko and wins a free kick which is taken early by Ivan Campo but too early for his team as the ball floats straight out.

1mins

Referee Phil Dowd gets the game underway at the Reebok Stadium and Gary Spped sweeps the ball forwards.

0mins

Quinton Fortune is Bolton's major doubt for the visit of Liverpool with an achilles injury and if he does not make the side Sam Allardyce will name an unchanged side. Craig Bellamy is preferred up front to Peter Crouch and Sami Hyypia, John Arne Riis

Match Report

Bolton Wanderers' impressive start to the campaign continued thanks to the kind of robust display feared by Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez.

A combination of work-rate, commitment and a sharp-eyed official allowed Sam Allardyce's side to muscle their way to victory.

A controversial first-half free-kick awarded against Jose Reina proved the turning point.

Gary Speed marked his 750th club appearance by firing home and Bolton never looked back.

Another linesman's intervention - this time a correct one - ruled Ivan Campo's second-half header crossed the line.

Despite winning ten corners and having 13 goal attempts, Liverpool couldn't end their dreadful scoring record away from Anfield.

They've yet to score an away goal in the Premiership from open play. And Benitez's decision to match Bolton's 4-5-1 formation backfired.

For the 94th successive game he changed his starting line-up with four alterations from the side that beat Galatasaray.

Opposite number Allardyce has a reputation as a tinker-man. But for only the third time in 53 matches he stuck with the same starting 11.

With Speed, Campo, Abdoulaye Meite and Jussi Jaaskelainen in imperious form, the Lancastrians may just have deserved all three points.

An agitated Benitez was like a jack-in-the-box in the early stages.

He berated the linesman for not spotting a blatant offside against Nicolas Anelka, protested at a Kevin Davies challenge on John Arne Riise and harangued his players for not closing down Kevin Nolan at a free-kick - Benitez just couldn't sit still.

He was also on his feet when Dirk Kuyt headed a Steven Gerrard free-kick goalwards. But Jaaskelainen, a hero in the 1-0 win over Portsmouth, produced a flying save, using his fists to beat the ball away.

Ex-Liverpool star Anelka should have done better after a slip by Sami Hyypia. But the Finn chased back to snuff out the danger with Anelka breaking into the penalty area.

Liverpool created another good chance after 20 minutes. Craig Bellamy's cross was only cleared to Xabi Alonso lurking 20 yards out and the Spaniard's rasping low shot struck an upright with Jaaskelainen well beaten.

Benitez went ballistic again after Abdoulaye Faye headed the back of Kuyt's head. Already booked for an earlier challenge on Gerrard, it was fortunate for the Senegalese defender that Mr Dowd viewed his latest intervention as accidental.

Benitez clearly indicated he believed the African had used his elbow as Kuyt disappeared for stitches.

It wasn't difficult to gauge Benitez's mood after Speed drilled Wanderers into the lead.

Reina was adjudged to have cleared the ball outside his area by an eagle-eyed linesman. Television replays suggested the ball was just inside the keeper's territory.

Speed and Campo stood over the free-kick, before the 37-year-old smashed a low left-foot shot through the wall for his second goal of the season.

Speed produced another telling contribution after 34 minutes. He showed great endeavour to chase back and deny Jermaine Pennant a clear shooting opportunity after the ball broke to the ex Arsenal starlet off a Wanderers defender.

Another Jaaskelainen intervention kept Bolton in front at half-time. Steve Finnan's cross was knocked back into Gerrard's path by Bellamy but the Wanderers goalkeeper again punched clear the England star's stinging shot.

Liverpool were at their best in the opening period of the second half but Campo's header from a Davies cross knocked the stuffing out of the Merseysiders.

Bolton Wanderers

Liverpool

Corners

110

Fouls

1512

Goal attempts

413

Shots off target

16

Offsides

24

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