Bolton Wanderers 3-2 Everton: Klasnic sinks Everton

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Everton have more cause for concern, shipping another three goals after that midweek mauling by Benfica. In mitigation, David Moyes needs a triage nurse almost as much as a reliable centre-half, with 10 senior players unavailable, injured. Until he gets most of them back, Everton are destined to struggle, and the Carling Cup tie away to Tottenham does not bode well.

Football folk everywhere may have been focussing some 27 miles to the west, but the loyalists who braved a wet and windy Reebok Stadium were handsomely rewarded with a roller-coaster scrap in which Bolton went 2‑0 up and Everton fought back to 2‑2 before the issue was settled in the 86th minute by Croatia's Ivan Klasnic. The hero? Klasnic is the real deal in that respect, playing on after two kidney transplants in the past four years.

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