Bolton
5th in Premiership
with 44 points
Position achievable
after MatchDay 27:
Highest 4th - Lowest 5th
- BOLTON WANDERERS against Fulham is a Sunday lunchtime match-up between two equally inconsistent sides of late. Both have won one, drawn one and lost one of their last three Premiership matches. The Trotters' victory was last time out, away to bottom placed Watford. It was their opening League win of 2007, and first maximum since registering five in a row in December.
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Wanderers will need a victory to stay ahead of the record-breaking pace they set last season, when they bagged 45 points after the opening 27 games of a Premiership season for the first time. They currently have 44 points after 26, and are attempting to stretch an unbeaten home League run to six games.
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The Trotters are aiming to make it a hat-trick of home Premiership victories over Fulham.
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FULHAM
14th in Premiership
with 32 points
Position achievable
after MatchDay 27:
Highest 9th - Lowest 15th
- FULHAM have avoided defeat in seven of the last eight Premiership matches, and won last time out (2-1, home to Newcastle). But the Cottagers have not completed back-to-back victories in 22 top flight outings since 9 September.
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The Londoners are the Premiership's joint draw specialists with 11 stalemates. They've without a League victory on the road in 11 trips, since their only maximum away from the Cottage - a 1-2 triumph at Newcastle on 9 September.
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The Cottagers needed a 90th minute penalty from Jimmy Bullard to get a point from a 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture in August. The Londoners have had the better of the exchanges in this League, winning six of the 11 Premiership meetings with Bolton.
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- 1. Won one of five Premiership matches.
- Lost eight times in the top League, and conceded eight goals in the first quarter (22 minutes) of Premiership matches, as Fulham.
- Kept 11 clean sheets in the highest echelon. Only Liverpool (15) and Chelsea (14) have managed more.
- Won three and drawn two of the last five home top tier engagements.
- Lost one of seven Premiership games at the Reebok.
- Host Arsenal next in a fourth round replay of the FA Cup. The next three Premiership fixtures are against Spurs away, Blackburn at home and Manchester United away.
- Nicolas ANELKA is Bolton's leading scorer with nine goals - eight in the Premiership.
- Jussi JAASKELAIKEN is the only remaining player to have been on the field for every minute of every one of Bolton's Premiership matches this season.
- If he plays, Gary SPEED will be extending his record breaking number of Premier League appearances to 510.
- If involved, Kevin DAVIES will be making his 400th club career appearance (Chesterfield, Southampton, Blackburn, Millwall and Bolton).
- DAVIES is also a double shy of 50 career Premiership goals.
- If selected, Kevin NOLAN will be making his 200th career Premiership appearance - all for Bolton.
- If he takes the field, Ricardo GARDNER will be making his 300th appearance for Wanderers.
- If he gets a run out, VAZ TE will be making his 50th Premiership appearance for the Trotters.
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LAST CORRESPONDING LEAGUE (Premiership) FIXTURE
Reebok Stadium on 26 Feb 2007
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Helguson 45(og)
Nolan 68
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Helguson 22 |
Jaaskelainen, O'Brien, N'Gotty, Jaidi, Gardner, Faye (Speed, 60 ), Okocha (Ben Haim, 89 ), Hidetoshi Nakata (Vaz Te, 82 ), Nolan, Davies, Giannakopoulos
Subs not used: Walker, Borgetti, |
Warner, Volz, Bocanegra, Knight, Bridge, Radzinski (Diop, 75 ), Elliott, Malbranque, Boa Morte, Helguson, McBride (John, 75)
Subs not used Rosenior, Goma, Niclas Jensen, |
Yellow card:
Nolan |
Yellow card:
Boa Morte |
| Red card: |
Red card: |
Attendance:
23104 |
Referee:
P Dowd (Staffordshire) |
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- Last completed successive Premiership victories on 26 August and 9 September, against Sheffield United (h) and Newcastle (a).
- The 2-1 home win over Newcastle ended a seven-match winless Premiership run of six draws and one defeat.
- Lost eight times in the top League, and conceded eight goals in the first quarter (22 minutes) of Premiership matches, as Bolton.
- Lost one of 12 in all competitions.
- Three goals short of conceding 300 goals all time in the Premier League.
- Completed 38 top flight matches since a victory by more than a single goal (6-1, home to West Brom on 11 February).
- The current tally of 32 points after 26 matches is identical to last season, when Fulham were static on 32 points from match 26 to match 30.
- Gained seven points from the last 33 available away from home - all from draws.
- Lost five times away from home in the Premiership. Only Manchester United (two) and Chelsea (three) have been beaten less often on the road.
- The next three fixtures are all at home, to Tottenham in the FA Cup, and to Manchester United and Aston Villa in the Premiership, before a trip to Wigan.
- Brian McBRIDE is Fulham's leading scorer, with 11 goals - eight in the Premiership.
- Only Liam ROSENIOR has been on the field for every minute of every one of Fulham's Premiership matches this season.
- If he maintains that record, ROSENIOR will be making his 100th club career appearance (Bristol City, Fulham and Torquay).
- If on the field from the outset, Simon DAVIES will be making his 200th club career start (Peterborough, Tottenham, Everton and Fulham).
- Mark PEMBRIDGE needs one more appearance to total 400 in his English League career (Luton, Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, Everton and Fulham).
- If he participates, Claus JENSEN will be playing against a former club. The Denmark international midfielder made 109 appearances (86 in the Premiership) and scored 10 goals (eight Premiership) for Bolton in a two year stay from July 1998.
- Suspended for one game for 5 yellow cards: Carlos BOCANEGRA
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| HEAD TO HEAD at BOLTON |
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BOLTON |
Draw |
FULHAM |
| League |
17 |
8 |
7 |
| Premier |
2 |
2 |
1 |
| HEAD TO HEAD RESULTS |
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BOLTON |
Draw |
FULHAM |
| League |
26 |
17 |
22 |
| Premier |
2 |
3 |
6 |
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