{"id":170037,"date":"2025-09-20T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170037\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:38:09","slug":"bolton-wanderers-4-1-wigan-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170037\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Wanderers 4-1 Wigan Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gale then provided the assist for Middlesbrough loanee Forss to open his Trotters account five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five minutes after the re-start, Forss punished a dreadful Morgan Fox headed back-pass to claim his second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match report from PA Media.<\/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":170038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-170037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}