David Moyes rang the changes, perhaps in anticipation of another even bigger Goodison game coming up on Sunday. Coleman, Heitinga and Yakubu rested, allowing Marouane Fellaini, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov and Louis Saha to start.
Bolton started the more brightly. Distin did well to intercept Ellmander in full flight on Howard's goal.
Bolton were pushing Everton back repeatedly from set pieces but after 20 mins it was Everton's turn to apply the pressure. Pienaar finally got a break, Saha's shoot straight at Jaskelinen but Tim Cahill in quickly could do nothing with the rebound.
Saha with a nice galancing header off a corner, say it cleared off the line after the half-hour.
Everton looked to attack with more purpose, Arteta firing in a good deep cross that won a corner. Good pressure from Everton led to another corner, with Cahill and Cahill getting a serious lecture for stupidly pushing each other. The corner dropped to Fellaini at the back post but his ferocios volley flew high over the bar.
Steinsson then took out Pienaar and won the first yellow card. Pienaar came back on after treatment and ran at Bolton, feeding a great ball into Arteta but his touch was too heavy and the chance was gone. Baines won a free-kick with a good run inside, but Arteta's free-kick drive was hopeless, the ball curling well away from goal.
A speell of good possession but the attack was nmodeled again around walking the ball through the Bolton defence and that was not going to work.
Another yellow card for Bolton on the break, Zac Knight cutting down Saha, the free-kick from Arteta totally wasted as his chip bounced through harmlessly to Jaskelinien.
So Everton under the cosh for 20 minutes, survived the aerial onslaught. Then the Blues dominated the rest of the half but could not deliver.
Everton looked to continue the attacking play into the second half,. Bily coming very close on an acute run-in fro the left, his shot deflecting over off Baines. Neville gave away a corner that looked dangerous.
The hour mark and subs in order for both sides,A great chance for Saha but he smashes it into a defender, lots of pressure but the Blues unable to really get close enough. Coleman coming on for Bilyaletdinov but another hopeless corner from Arteta. But Coleman joined the fun, keeping the balls coming into the Bolton area.
Coleman did a trademark cut-in but again the effort was blocked. On his next attempt, Coleman wins a corner but yet again, it was utterly attrocious from Arteta, straight to the feet of the first defender. But Boilton cannot clear and Saha wins yet aonther corner, this time from Baines. More height, but insufficient speed...
Fellaini caught Holden, lashing at the ball in the centre circle, and from the restart, Bolton won a rare corner, from which Taylor headed into the Everton bar! Yakubu readied himslelf as Coleman dsahed forward yet again,winning another corner, but it was lobbed in, far too high and deep.
But Jagielka gets caught horribly in possession in the middle, and Bolton are off to the races, Taylor crossing well for Klasnic at the far post as Distin and Howard both fatally miss the ball, allowing him to bundle it inside the post. Game Over, surely with 10 mins left..
Yakubu and Beckford came on in place of Saha and Neville, as David Moyes throws caution to the wind. Fellainai than got tanglked with Robinson kicking out at him while on the ground, Dowd immediatly pulled out his red card for an idiotic response from the Big Fella. Could it possibly get any worse?
No, into the fiinal minute of added time, an unbelievable goal from Jermaine Beckford. Baines did superbly to pull the ball back into play off Lee and scoop it in to Beckford, who turned on the left side of the area and clipped the most beautiful unstoppable shot into the top far corner of Jaskelienen's goal, with the keepr utterly beaten. A fantastice debut league goal and an incredible finish to the game.
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