{"id":158490,"date":"2025-09-21T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158490\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:12:07","slug":"bolton-4-1-wigan-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158490\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton 4-1 Wigan | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Forss scored twice on his full league debut for Bolton as they ended 11 years of pain with a 4-1 League One win against neighbours Wigan.<\/p>\n<p>Since their last home league victory over Latics in November 2014, Bolton had failed to win any of the next four games, losing the last three by a 10-0 aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>But Thierry Gale&#8217;s first third-tier goal after 15 minutes set Steven Schumacher&#8217;s side on their way to an impressive third win of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-bolton-blackpool_7026191.jpg\" alt=\"bOLTON BLACKPOOL\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              Marcus Forss scored his second of the game, after shambolic defending from Wigan gifted Bolton a fourth goal during their League One clash.<\/p>\n<p>Gale then provided the assist for Middlesbrough loanee Forss to open his Trotters account five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton&#8217;s afternoon improved further when fellow striker Mason Burstow, on loan from Hull, struck a superb low shot to claim his fifth goal of the season after 42 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes after the re-start, Forss punished a dreadful Morgan Fox headed back-pass to claim his second.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Mullin&#8217;s fourth goal since his summer loan switch from Wrexham was hardly a consolation for the visitors in front of a bumper attendance of 25,565.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Forss scored twice on his full league debut for Bolton as they ended 11 years of pain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-158490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}