Championship Championship
Regular Season - 12• 23 Oct 2026

Bolton 1–5 Middlesbrough

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Match Recap

Will Lankshear scored twice as Middlesbrough tore Bolton apart, turning a Championship fixture into a one-sided rout long before half-time. Aidan Morris opened the floodgates after 13 minutes, Lankshear doubled it, and Lewis Brunt made it three before the break, with Thelonius Bair's stoppage-time reply the only thing Bolton had to show for the first half. Lankshear, already the division's top scorer with 16 goals, kept piling on, and Amario Cozier-Duberry's goal made sure the margin matched the gulf in form: Middlesbrough sit third with 22 points and a run of just one defeat in five, while Bolton slip to 15th having lost as often as they've won. Five goals, four different scorers, and barely a moment of resistance from the home side at Bolton's own ground. Lankshear's second, on 78 minutes, was the exclamation mark on a afternoon Middlesbrough fans will want to watch back in full, so catch every one of the six goals in the highlights below.

Match Statistics

Bolton
VS
Middlesbrough
39% Ball Possession 61%
0.94 Expected goals (xG) 4.19
12 Total Shots 31
4 Shots on target 12
5 Shots off target 8
3 Blocked Shots 11
7 Shots inside box 20
5 Shots outside box 11
2 Corner Kicks 12
0 Offsides 4
9 Fouls 9
1 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
8 Goalkeeper Saves 3
367 Total passes 557
308 Accurate passes 494
9 Free Kicks 8

Lineups

Bolton
S. Schumacher 4-2-3-1
VS
Middlesbrough
K. Hellberg 4-2-3-1

Substitutes — Bolton

1J. Bonham 25M. Conway 10S. Dalby 6B. Davies 39R. Hardie 16S. Iling-Junior 17A. Ito 4X. Simons 27Luca Stephenson

Substitutes — Middlesbrough

16J. Sarmiento 14M. Peart-Harris 22K. Joseph 19Leo Castledine 3S. Byram 31S. Brynn 18C. Barron 12L. Ayling 17M. Arfsten