Bolton Wanderers 2 Leicester 1 <i>(aet; score at 90min 0-0)</i>: Borgetti rescues Wanderers
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Your support makes all the difference.Goals from Jared Borgetti and Ricardo Vaz Te on either side of the interval in extra time saw Bolton finally impose their Premiership class on a Carling Cup fourth-round tie that came alive after its first 90 minutes at the Reebok.
Bolton had been guilty in normal time of failing to make their territorial dominance pay and after the tie, their manager, Sam Allardyce, revealed Wanderers had already made contact with advisers acting for Roy Keane, who recently left Manchester United. Perhaps Keane would help them to impose their will because they did so only belatedly last night when Borgetti, a late substitute in normal time, continued his habit of scoring important goals in cup competitions.
It was not a pretty affair. Ivan Campo, making his comeback also as a substitute after injury, curled in a free-kick, Radhi Jaidi made some sort of contact with a low header at the far post, and Martin Djetou had his close-range shot blocked.
With the penalty area taking on the look of a pinball table, the ball flew out to Borgetti and back off his shins into the net.
At the other side of the short break, Bolton scored a very different goal. Another of those returning from injury, Nicky Hunt, got in an early cross. Vaz Te, who had worked hard up front but was by this time looking exhausted, found the energy to take the ball on his chest, elude two defenders, and roll the gentlest of shots past Robert Douglas and into the net.
That should have been that, but this was a match that saved all its drama for extra time. Four minutes later, the Leicester midfielder Gareth Williams hit a 25-yard screamer into the top corner. In the very last minute, the veteran Dion Dublin met Alan Sheehan's free-kick with a goal-bound header but Bolton goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen produced a flying save.
Bolton Wanderers (4-1-3-2): Jaaskelainen; Hunt, Ben Haim, Jaidi, Gardner; Djetou; Okocha (Fadiga, 51), Speed (Campo, h-t), Nakata; Davies (Borgetti, 84)Vaz Te. Substitutes not used: Howarth (gk), N'Gotty.
Leicester City (4-1-4-1): Douglas; Stearman (Sheehan, 109), Dublin, Johansson, Maybury; Williams; Hamill, Hughes (Sylla, 72), Gudjohsson, Tiatto (McCarthy, 85); De Vries. Substitutes not used: Kisnorbo, Gerrbrand.
Referee: D Gallagher (Oxfordshire).
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