Please, try again later
These two teams head into Monday nights game in the midst of very different battles, with Bolton occupying a place in the bottom three they are fighting for their survival in the second tier of English football, while West Brom are in the heart of the promotion race and will have all eyes on a top two finish in order to avoid the lottery known as the Championship Play-Offs.
West Brom got off to a great start against fellow promotion hopefuls Norwich, when on-loan Everton defender Mason Holgate put in a near post cross and striker Dwight Gayle got on the end of it to make it 1-0 in the twelfth minute. The Baggies pushed forward in search of a killer second goal but it never arrived and that cost them the victory. Norwich substitute Rhodes equalised for the visitors with just seven minutes left on the clock, earning the Canaries a valuable point on the road against one of their rivals.
West Brom head into Monday nights game as the form favourites having lost just one, drawn two, and won three of their last six in league and cup. This Bolton team severely lack goals and that could be their undoing in the business end of the campaign, with Magennis leading the way on four Championship goals. Gayle has fourteen and Rodriguez has thirteen league goals for the Baggies so far this season, while Barnes has chipped in with nine goals as well.
I’m confident that West Brom will win.
Bolton have managed just five league wins this season and they head to this game having picked just one point from a possible nine, while they have conceded eight goals in the last two matches, and scoring one. It depicts a team with a very poor defence and attack as well. They have scored just eight goals in their 13 home matches this season in the Championship while in total they have 18 goals in 27 matches, which makes them the lowest scorers in the league in the season. In 11 of their league matches this season, Bolton have trailed in both halves of their matches and they are set to take on the Championship’s top scoring side; West Brom having netted 55 goals, being one of just two teams to have attained that at this stage of the season. West Brom have lost just one and won four of their last five matches away from home, all in the Championship while they have one clean sheet. The last three meetings between these sides have seen over 2.5 goals scored while both sides have scored in five of the last six meetings. In 97 meetings between the two sides, Bolton have 33 wins and West Brom 27.