Bolton Wanderers vs Cardiff City | The LLM Podcast

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Bolton Wanderers

1 — 0 Sep 12, 2026 · 05:00 PM IST

Cardiff City

English Football League - Championship · Round 7

Venue Toughsheet Community Stadium, Bolton

Referee Thomas Parsons

Attendance 21,543

Player of the Match Gavin Bazunu 9.5 90' played

Match Events

31' Home Ben Davies ↗

32' Home Kyliane Dong

37' Home Samuel Iling-Junior

42' Away Joel Colwill

HT

46' Home ↔ Thierry Gale → Samuel Iling-Junior

46' Home ↔ Thelonius Bair → Sam Dalby

54' Away Perry Ng

59' Away ↔ David Turnbull → Joel Colwill

64' Home ↔ Atsuki Ito → Rúben Rodrigues

74' Away ↔ Cian Ashford → Chris Willock

75' Away ↔ Callum Robinson → Yousef Salech

75' Home ↔ Jayden Nelson → Kyliane Dong

78' Home Jayden Nelson

83' Home ↔ Ryan Hardie → Ethan Erhahon

90' Home ⚽ Thierry Gale — 1-0

90 + 1' Home Thierry Gale

90 + 2' Away ↔ Calum Scanlon → Joel Bagan

90 + 2' Away ↔ Ronan Kpakio → Alex Robertson

FT

Match Stats

41 59

Ball possession

0.48 1.79

Expected goals (xG)

7 17

Total shots

5 10

Shots on target

11 35

Touches in opposition box

1 2

Big chances

0 2

Big chances missed

247 (73%) 398 (83%)

Accurate passes

5 2

Yellow cards

2 10

Corners

Lineups

Bolton Wanderers (4-2-3-1)

Coach: Steven Schumacher

Starting XI

31 Gavin Bazunu 9.5

22 Gaizka Larrazabal 7.7

18 Eoin Toal 7.4

6 Ben Davies ↗ 7.6

25 Max Conway 8.6

8 Josh Sheehan 7.4

21 Ethan Erhahon 7.2

16 Samuel Iling-Junior 6.4

20 Rúben Rodrigues 7

7 Kyliane Dong 6.3

10 Sam Dalby 6.6

Substitutes

9 Thelonius Bair 6.7

11 Thierry Gale 7.6

17 Atsuki Ito 6

26 Jayden Nelson 6.1

39 Ryan Hardie

1 Jack Bonham

14 Akin Famewo

4 Xavier Simons

45 John McAtee

Cardiff City (4-2-3-1)

Coach: Brian Barry-Murphy

Starting XI

1 Nathan Trott 6.5

38 Perry Ng 6.8

5 Krystian Bielik 7.1

4 Gabriel Osho 7.2

3 Joel Bagan 7.2

18 Alex Robertson 7

27 Joel Colwill 6

11 Ollie Tanner 6.8

8 Jack Moylan 6.1

16 Chris Willock 6.7

9 Yousef Salech 6.5

Substitutes

14 David Turnbull 6.3

45 Cian Ashford 6.4

47 Callum Robinson 6.4

44 Ronan Kpakio

23 Calum Scanlon

30 Harry Tyrer

41 Matthew Turner

33 Rob Tankiewicz

43 Paul Moreno ↗