Bolton 0 Stoke 1 – 30/7/24 7.30
Decent win by Stoke from a 34th minute goal by Million Manhoef. Steady though hardly exciting. Here are the bullet points:
Last away pre-season fixture for City. They’re wearing the salmon (3rd) strip, which looks better in the flesh…in fact it looks like sunburnt flesh! 7 changes to the starting lineup, but Junho & Ennis nursing knocks. Tezgel and Viktor return, and both left backs start (Stevens & Bocat, with Eric playing left midfield).
2.00 Josh Laurent with a shot wide when hitting the target seemed easier.
26.12 Viktor makes a decent save when Scott Arfield has a second bite of the cherry.
33.10 1-0!!! Million Manhoef, who’s been marked out of the game, bursts clear and lobs the keeper Luke Southwood! Bolton caught out.
35.00 Gooch replaces Enda Stevens, with Bocat switching to left back from left midfield.
HT Wanderers 0 City 1
46.00 Good passing leads to Laurent shooting across goal and just wide.
57.00 Yellow card for Bolton (Lolos) for foul on Junior.
59.00 Josh Laurent fouls Sheehan, who leaps up and everyone piles in!! Yellow cards for those two.
66.35 Tezgel put through but Southwood saves well.
71.10 Leris and Vidigal on for Bocat and Million Manhoef.
77.30 Lowe, Dixon, Anderson, Johnson, Sidibe, Baker for Tezgel, Gibson, Wilmot, Laurent, Thompson and Burger.
FT 1-0!
