- McCartney (20)
- Nolan (90)
- Date:2007-11-04
- Kick-off:16:00
- Venue:Upton Park
- Attendance:33867
- Referee:Walton, P
Live Commentary
90mins
FULL TIME WEST HAM 1-1 BOLTON: Nolan's late effort hands Bolton a deserved point at Upton Park but does not lift them out of he drop zone while the Hammers stay in 11th spot.
90mins
WEST HAM 1-1 BOLTON: The third minute of injury time and Lubomir Michalik heads the ball down into the area and KEVIN NOLAN pounces to equalise for Bolton.
90mins
John Paintsil goes into the book for a foul in the middle of the park as the long free kick into the area is then headed goalwards by Kevin Nolan but knocked off the line by the knee of Jonathan Spector.
89mins
A great run from Lucas Neill as he breaks into the area from the right but the ball is taken off his foot before he can get in a shot on goal.
88mins
West Ham look comfortable at the moment but you cannot rule out Bolton as they play long balls up to Kevin Davies to try and snatch a point.
86mins
Luis Boa Morte does well down the right and advances towards the penalty area before inexplicably curling the ball out of play with neither a cross or shot.
85mins
John Paintsil gets a chance for the last five minutes with the all-cation Lee Bowyer replaced.
83mins
Bolton are continuing to press but El Hadji Diouf is lucky not to be booked for complaining after getting a harsh free kick against him.
81mins
Nicky Hunt cannot carry on in this game and he looks to have damaged his shoulder as he goes off with Gavin McCann coming on.
80mins
Nicky Hunt is the latest man to go down after a lunge from behind on him by George McCartney but no card is dished out to the goalscorer.
78mins
Gary Speed's time is up in this game as he goes off and Jlloyd Samuel is the man to replace him for the last 12 minutes.
76mins
El Hadji Diouf almost gets on the end of a Kevin Davies flick but Lee Bowyer and Robert Green combine to knock the ball behind for a corner. The resulting kick drops in front of goal but everyone misses it and another chance has gone.
74mins
A marginal but correct offside flag denies Henri Camara a goal from a quick free kick at the other end.
73mins
Bolton almost level as Kevin Davies somehow manages to divert his header from a great Danny Guthrie cross off the top of the crosbar and behind for a goal kick.
72mins
As expected Henri Camara finally gets a chance as he comes on in place of the hard working Carlton Cole.
70mins
It's a ping pong defence here as West Ham win a second corner and Bolton just cannot clear the danger before they breathe a sigh of relief with the award of a free kick.
69mins
Ricardo Gardner gives the ball away inside the West Ham area and Matthew Etherington races away before setting up Carlton Cole whose first shot is wel saved by Jussi Jaaskelainen and his follow up is scrambled behind for a corner.
68mins
It looks like West Ham will soon make a change as this game is still very much in the balance with just one goal seperating the two teams.
66mins
The first corner is put behind for a second one and Jussi Jaaskelainen flaps at it and is helped out by the defence who manage to clear the danger.
65mins
Nolberto Solano plays a great ball over the top for Luis Boa Morte to get on the end of in the area but his attempted pull back into the middle is knocked behind for a corner.
64mins
Lee Bowyer puts in a typical robust challenge on Danny Guthrie and he is now shown a yellow card.
62mins
Danny Gabbidon heads clear as Gary Speed hoists another long throw in into the penalty area as West Ham look to keep Bolton at bay.
60mins
The corner is played in to the middle and Kevin Davies heads over despite Robert Green coming out and missing the ball completely.
59mins
A nice break from Bolton and a cross into the area is only cleared to Gary Speed on the edge of the area and his fierce drive is pushed over the top by Robert Green.
57mins
Carlton Cole tries to turn and get in a shot in the Bolton area but Lubomir Michalik does well to get in an intervention to stop him managing that.
56mins
A big shout for a penalty there from West Ham as Andy O'Brien looks to have barged over Lee Bowyer in the area but nothing is given.
55mins
West Ham go straight up the pitch as Nolberto Solano sees his low effort pushed around the post by Jussi Jaaskelainen and Bolton manage to clear the resulting corner.
54mins
Kevin Nolan tries a little flick through to Kevin Davies but he fails to read it and Robert Green gathers.
53mins
A good splash of ice cold water on that ankle looks like it has done the job for El Hadji Diouf as he is coming back into the action.
52mins
El Hadji Diouf just pulled up there as he hit the floor and he will need some treatment here on his ankle.
50mins
West Ham make a change as Hayden Mullins has not recovered from that early knock so is replaced by Jonathan Spector.
49mins
George McCartney goes on a surging run into the Bolton area and toe-pokes the ball straight into the hands of Jussi Jaaskelainen so a good opportunity wasted there.
48mins
George McCartney plays a good ball into the Bolton area but it is a good early clearance for Lubomir Michalik as West Ham have started well.
46mins
Abdoulaye Meite has picked up a knock during the first half so he goes off at the break and is replaced by Slovakian Lubomir Michalik.
46mins
The second 45 minutes are underway now and Gary Megson wind get a vital goal while West Ham need to step it up and look for a killer second.
45mins
HALF TIME: WEST HAM 1-0 BOLTON: George McCartney's goal divides the two sides at the break but Bolton responded well to falling behind and probably deserve to be level after Danny Guthrie hit the post.
44mins
Abdoulaye Meite gets in another great block to prevent Lee Bowyer making it 2-0 as he was racing into the area to convert a great left-wing cross.
43mins
Luis Boa Morte wastes a chance to get an attack going when he lashes a shot high and wide from 25 yards when a ball into Nolberto Solano was a better option.
41mins
A brief spell of attacking by West Ham has ended as Bolton get them penned back in their own half but nothing doing in he final third just at the moment.
39mins
Another fairly good free kick for Bolton as Danny Guthrie is fouled by George McCartney but the ball into the area is easy for Robert Green to gather.
37mins
Nolberto Solano takes the resulting free kick from about 30 yards but it is easily saved by Jussi Jaaskelainen.
36mins
Nicky Hunt chops down the surging run of Matthew Etherington and is correctly booked.
35mins
West Ham break as Carlton Cole chases a lost cause and almost gets between Andy O'Brien and Jussi Jaaskelainen but just fails tog et to the ball.
34mins
Gary Megson will be pleased with the way his Bolton side have responded here as they are getting closer to getting into this game.
32mins
Bolton are on top at the moment as they try and use the aerial threat from Kevin Davies and this latest attack sees him set up Danny Guthrie whose low strike from the edge of the area strikes the foot of the post.
30mins
Kevin Davies wins the ball in the area from a free kick and his head down lands at the feet of Gary Speed but he cannot keep his shot down as it flies over the top.
29mins
Jussi Jaaskelainen is almost caught out as a cross into the area off Luis Boa Morte deflects off a defender and nearly ends up in the Bolton net.
26mins
Looks like another injury problem for West Ham as Hayden Mullins limps off for some treatment on a foot knock.
24mins
A chance for the Trotters with El Hadji Diouf twisting in the area and his deflected shot is headed away from virtually on his own goal line by goal scorer George McCartney.
23mins
West Ham probably feel they deserved that goal but Bolton are just showing sign of getting back into it.
21mins
Bolton are up against it again and Gary Megson will not be too happy with the defending which led up to the goal as they had chances to clear the danger.
19mins
WEST HAM 1-0 BOLTON: Bolton fail to clear a corner with Matthew Upson seeing a shot hacked off the line and the ball drops to GEORGE McCARTNEY who volleys it into the net for his first Hammers goal.
18mins
More pressure from West Ham with Nicky Hunt having to play the ball out for a corner.
17mins
Matthew Etherington gets the better of Andy O'Brien and his cut back from the by line is knocked behind for a corner. Nolberto Solano plays it in but Bolton clear the danger.
16mins
To be fair Bolton are trying to get forward whenever possible but West ham's defence is quick to close them down.
14mins
Bolton are just getting pushed back into their own half as Andy O'Brien's clearance is not the best and the resulting follow up shot by Lucas Neill is comfortable for Jussi Jaaskelainen.
12mins
Carlton Cole knocks the ball down to Lee Bowyer on the run in another great move and his effort goes just wide but the flag was up as Cole was offside.
11mins
Lucas Neill pushes Kevin Davies in the back to concede a free kick in a dangerous area. However Ramos Ivan Campo's effort drops the wrong side of Robert Green's goal.
9mins
West Ham feel they should have had a corner as another Matthew Etherington cross is knocked behind. However a goal kick is awarded to Bolton.
8mins
West Ham have just turned it up a notch as Luis Boa Morte almost turns in the area but Bolton's defence get in to clear the danger.
6mins
Abdoulaye Meite concedes a corner after a great break involving several Hammers players sees Matthew Etherington's cross cut out. The ball into the area sees Bolton win a free kick after a foul by Luis Boa Morte on Jussi Jaaskelainen.
5mins
El Hadji Diouf tries to break down the right flank but George McCartney does well to usher the ball behind for a goal kick.
3mins
It's been a physical start to the game as Lee Bowyer is fuming after Danny Guthrie jumped in two-footed on him but the referee did not even give him a free kick.
2mins
Nice early pressure from Bolton in the opening minutes as Danny Gabbidon and Luis Boa Morte combine to hack away a long throw into the West Ham area.
0mins
We are up and running at Upton Park with an injury-ravaged Hammers side looking to pile more pressure on struggling Bolton, who are looking for a first away win of the season.
0mins
Bolton starting XI: Jaaskelainen, Hunt, Andrew O'Brien, Meite, Gardner, Diouf, Guthrie, Nolan, Campo, Speed, Davies.
0mins
Bolton boss Gary Megson has Gary Speed back in his starting XI after leaving the veteran midfielder on the bench for the last two matches. Megson also brings back Ivan Campo and Kevin Davies from the side which lost to Manchester City in the Cup.
0mins
West Ham starting XI: Green, Neill, Gabbidon, Upson, McCartney, Boa Morte, Solano, Mullins, Bowyer, Etherington, Cole.
0mins
Nobby Solano will start for West Ham United against Bolton at Upton Park after Mark Noble failed to recover from a groin strain. Luis Boa-Morte will play just behind Carlton Cole and Matty Etherington will occupy the left-flank going forward.
Match Preview
West Ham United play host to a Bolton Wanderers side already facing a battle to beat the drop near the foot of the Premier League table.
The Hammers currently sit in mid-table, having escaped from Portsmouth with a goalless draw last weekend after Robert Green saved a late Benjani penalty.
Boss Alan Curbishley has a number of injuries to key players to contend with, which he admits is becoming frustrating after a summer of investment in the transfer market.
He said: "If you look at the injuries we've had, they have all been impact injuries. We could have done nothing about them.
"Kieron Dyer broke his leg, Scott Parker and Dean Ashton damaged knee ligaments. We have had hardly any muscle injuries."
Freddie Ljungberg, Bobby Zamora and Julien Faubert are also currently sidelined, while Craig Bellamy is also ruled out due to an abdominal strain.
Henri Camara is back in contention after missing the midweek Carling Cup win at Coventry City after featuring for Wigan Athletic in the same competition earlier this season.
Bolton arrive at Upton Park having won just once in the league this season, a run of failures which saw Sammy Lee axed by the Trotters, with Gary Megson handed the task of staving off the threat of relegation.
Last weekend, Bolton earned a point from a 1-1 draw with Aston Villa and Megson was content with the effort on display.
He said after the stalemate: "There is a fantastic determination among the players to get out of the position we are in. That doesn't need any work.
"Maybe confidence is a little bit low, so we have to judge them on their work-rate, the effort they have put in and the commitment, things you don't really need confidence for.
"That was there in spades and once that improves, it might allow us to move up a little bit and work on improving the passing and the finishing."
Megson is sweating on the fitness of star striker Nicolas Anelka, who is struggling to shake off thigh and hamstring problems.
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Match Report
Kevin Nolan's stoppage-time goal rescued a point for battling Bolton Wanderers after George McCartney's fantastic volley had looked set to give West Ham victory.
And although the disappointed East Enders trudged away knowing that they had come so desperately close to claiming victory, Wanderers wandered off claiming that a draw was the least that they deserved, after they had twice struck the woodwork and threatened Robert Green's goal on numerous occasions.
Ironically the Hammers' own late, late show at Coventry City on Tuesday evening had earned them a place in the Carling Cup quarter-finals and, returning to the bread and butter of the Premier League, Alan Curbishley made three changes as Danny Gabbidon and Nolberto Solano came in for Anton Ferdinand (hamstring) and Mark Noble (groin), while keeper Green returned in place of Richard Wright.
The lame Trotters had gone out of the competition following their home defeat against Manchester City in midweek and, with his misfiring 19th-placed side having recorded just a solitary win and three draws all season, Gary Megson made five changes for his third game in charge.
Still without seven-goal Nicolas Anelka, Megson recalled old-stagers Ivan Campo and Gary Speed together with Nicky Hunt, Kevin Davies and Ricardo Gardner in place of Mikel Alonso and Joey O'Brien, while Jlloyd Samuel, Stelios Giannakopoulos and Gavin McCann were all relegated to the bench.
Although Matthew Etherington and Solano had threatened with early bursts upfield, it was Campo who came closest to breaking the deadlock when he curled a 20-yard free-kick a whisker wide of Green's right-hand post.
But on 19 minutes, McCartney, poised on the edge of the six-yard box, went one better when he met Matthew Upson's nod-on with a spectacular, aerial volley after Bolton failed to clear Solano's inswinging corner.
And just two minutes later, the Northern Ireland International was the darling of the East End once more, when he nodded El Hadji Diouf's deflected, looping shot off the Hammers' goal-line with Green well and truly stranded.
Buoyed by that near miss, the Trotters continued to press and after Speed uncorked an 18-yarder that sizzled over the top, only the foot of Green's left-hand post prevented Danny Guthrie's low 20-yard shot from sending Bolton off at the break all-square.
Megson introduced Lubomir Michalik in place of Abdoulaye Meite at the restart and, after Hunt's long-ranger forced Green into a low save, Curbishley had to bring on Jonathan Spector for Hayden Mullins (knee).
With Bolton looked a different side after the break, Hunt and Speed soon forced Green to save their long-range efforts.
But at the other end, Jussi Jaaskelainen was still forced to turn the busy Solano's low 20-yard shot aside and then Gardner bravely denied Carlton Cole on the near post, as the pair raced in to meet Luis Boa Morte's byline cut-back.
Midway through the half, Etherington almost engineered the Hammers' second when he picked out Cole, whose low piledriver was parried by Jaaskelainen. before Gardner's came to the rescue again with his body-strength that forced the Hammers' attacker to nudge the follow-up inches wide.
Taking full advantage of that let-off, Bolton still went in search of a seemingly elusive equaliser and after Davies headed Guthrie's pinpoint cross on to the crossbar, Spector's goal-line clearance finally looked set to have preserved a Hammers win.
But that man Nolan had other ideas and, two minutes into stoppage time, with West Ham desperately hanging on for the final whistle, he calmly steered Michalik's flick-on beyond the despairing dive of Green to give Bolton a deserved share of the spoils.
West Ham United Team
Bolton Wanderers Team
West Ham United | Bolton Wanderers |
Corners
| 8 | 3 |
Fouls
| 13 | 13 |
Goal attempts
| 9 | 12 |
Shots off target
| 2 | 4 |
Offsides
| 3 | 3 |



90mins
A boost for Bolton as four minutes of injury time goes up on the board so there is time to try and get something.