Bolton Wanderers are aiming to make it eight games unbeaten in League One when they take on Burton Albion this evening.
29.01.2022 - 21:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Bolton Wanderers produced an astonishing performance to put six goals past a dismal Sunderland in League One.
Dion Charles put Wanderers ahead before Dapo Afolayan added a second before half-time.
Charles bagged his second after the break before Kieran Lee added a fourth as Wanderers blitzed the Black Cats.
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Danny Batth put through his own net to add a fifth for the hosts before Declan John rounded off the win with a sublime sixth goal as a rampant Wanderers made it three victories on the bounce.
After the game, Wanderers boss Ian Evatt gave his immediate reaction to the stunning victory and here's what he had to say.
What was the most pleasing aspect of that?
“I’d probably say the clean sheet to be honest! I think for almost 19 months I’ve been in charge now, a lot of people will say that’s been coming.
"It hasn’t felt like that the last two months, but everything went right today and we’ll enjoy it because we’ve suffered for two or three months with some pain but getting players back, getting players fit again, bringing people in has helped us.
“But we’ve got a lot of hard work to do and that’s three wins and three clean sheets, but it’s only a small step, we’ve got more work to do to get anywhere near where we want to be because we’re not there yet.”
It’s the best ever win any Bolton team has ever had at this stadium…
“That’s nice and that’s good for us. It gives us something to aim at for the future, but for now we’ll enjoy tonight. But it’s going to be really different on Tuesday and more difficult, probably half of that crowd, not many away fans, so we’re going to have to create our own atmosphere and strictly
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