Championship Championship
Regular Season - 13• 31 Oct 2026

Bolton 2–3 Bristol City

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Match Recap

Scott Twine settled this one deep into stoppage time, the finishing touch on a frantic Championship five-goal swing that Bristol City could easily have lost. Dominic Ballard's early finish had the visitors ahead inside 13 minutes before Josh Sheehan leveled for Bolton, and Sam Dalby's 57th-minute goal turned things around, putting the hosts 2-1 up. Bristol City needed a response and got one: Sam Bellis leveled with six minutes left, then Twine completed the turnaround with virtually the last kick of the game. The result nudges Bristol City up to 15 points despite a scratchy DLLDW run, while Bolton stay stuck in 19th on 14 points, their own LDWLW form still not translating into results. Neither side has a player near the Championship's scoring charts this season. League leader W. Lankshear's 18 goals are miles off anything either team produced here. None of that will matter to Bristol City once they see Twine's winner land in stoppage time, snatching a result nobody at Bolton saw coming.

Match Statistics

Bolton
VS
Bristol City
65% Ball Possession 35%
1.41 Expected goals (xG) 3.36
19 Total Shots 14
6 Shots on target 9
5 Shots off target 3
8 Blocked Shots 2
11 Shots inside box 11
8 Shots outside box 3
11 Corner Kicks 4
2 Offsides 5
5 Fouls 7
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
6 Goalkeeper Saves 4
589 Total passes 323
495 Accurate passes 237
7 Free Kicks 5

Lineups

Bolton
S. Schumacher 4-2-3-1
VS
Bristol City
M. Skubala 4-2-3-1
6De Keersmaecker
12Knight
3Pring2Eissat
15McNally
19Tanner
40Collins

Substitutes — Bolton

9T. Bair 5L. Brunt 7K. Dong 14A. Famewo 23D. Harrington 20Ruben Rodrigues 27Luca Stephenson 12D. Watson 35Max Lott

Substitutes — Bristol City

20S. Greenwood 7Y. Hirakawa 14T. Horvat 4A. Randell 1S. Tickle 10S. Twine 17J. Wallace 11S. Bell 5R. Atkinson