Bolton’s season will end in the League One play-off final for the second time in three seasons.<\/p>\n
They suffered a tame 2-0 defeat by Oxford United in the final under Ian Evatt two years ago, but will hope for a better showing in 10 days as they look to end their seven-year wait for Championship football.<\/p>\n
Steven Schumacher’s men kept Bradford from registering a shot on target across both legs of the tie until Power’s excellent effort was kept out by Bonham’s great stop with 22 minutes to play.<\/p>\n
The Bantams pushed on in search of an equaliser and thought they had one when Jackson bundled in after Bonham’s reaction save from Nick Powell’s header.<\/p>\n
The assistant’s flag meant any joy was short-lived and worse was to follow moments later.<\/p>\n
John McAtee played fellow substitute Thierry Gale down the inside left channel and, despite a heavy touch, he cut the ball back and Simons confidently dispatched the loose ball after the home defence failed to clear.<\/p>\n
There was still 10 minutes to go and Graham Alexander’s men continued to push for a goal but Bonham was not forced into any meaningful work as Bolton held out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bolton’s season will end in the League One play-off final for the second time in three seasons. They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-671215","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\/671215","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=671215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}