Reserves Beat Rovers

Julio Cesar was sent off after just eight minutes and with the game still goalless with 15 minutes remaining Joey O'Brien received his marching orders to leave Wanderers with just nine men.

However, 5 minutes after O'Brien's dismissal Wanderer's were awarded a penalty when Bedi Buval was upended in the box and Blessing Kaku scored from the resulting spot-kick.

Bolton: Ashton, Powell, Talbot, Barness, Laville, Cesar, Sinclair, O'Brien, Buval, Kaku, Pedersen. Subs not used: Luisi, Sissons, Cassidy, Hill, Stott.

Blackburn: Drench, Kane, Rowntree, Hodge, Barr, Harkins, Welch, Byrom, Derbyshire, Barker, Watt. Subs not used: De Vita, Fielding, Thomas, Thompson, King.

Reserves table as at Weds 30th March		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Manchester Utd Res	23	15	5	3	55	21	32	50
2	Manchester City Res	23	13	6	4	42	26	16	45
3	Aston Villa Res	23	13	5	5	46	27	19	44
4	Blackburn Rovers Res	24	10	10	4	38	23	15	40
5	Birmingham City Res	26	11	7	8	34	32	2	40
6	Wolves Res	23	9	7	7	32	26	6	34
7	Bolton Wanderers Res	22	8	6	8	29	30	-1	30
8	West Brom Res	25	6	11	8	28	33	-5	29
9	Everton Res	22	7	8	7	20	28	-8	29
10	Middlesborough Res	22	6	6	10	29	32	-3	24
11	Newcastle Utd Res	21	6	6	9	21	27	-6	24
12	Liverpool Res	24	6	6	12	24	38	-14	24
13	Leeds Utd Res	24	5	6	13	25	48	-23	21
14	Nott'm Forest Res	24	4	6	14	16	35	-19	18
15	Sunderland Res	20	4	5	11	20	33	-13	17