Match ends, Stevenage 0, Bolton Wanderers 0.
Bolton lost more ground in League One's automatic promotion battle as they were held to a 0-0 draw at slumping Stevenage.
Will Forrester came the closest to scoring a winner for the visitors when he clattered the crossbar.
Wanderers have won just two of their last eight matches and have slipped six points off second-placed Derby, albeit with a game in hand.
As for Stevenage, they are now winless in their last six and sit a point outside the play-off places.
Despite neither team managing to find a way past either goalkeeper, it was not for the lack of trying.
Stevenage's Ben Thompson controlled Kane Smith's fifth-minute cross but flashed his strike past the post.
Boro were then saved by goalkeeper Taye Ashby-Hammond, who recovered quickly to collect Cameron Jerome's shot off the line.
Bolton started to slowly build confidence and Forrester directed Nathanael Ogbeta's corner on to the crossbar.
Thompson missed Boro's best chance to snatch victory with six minutes remaining as he scuffed his finish after Jordan Roberts intercepted Ricardo Santos' pass and laid it off to the midfielder.
Match report supplied by PA Media.
Line-ups
Stevenage
Formation 3-4-1-2
- 1Ashby-Hammond
- 2Wildin
- 15Vancooten
- 3Butler
- 14Smith
- 7MacDonald
- 17Burns
- 22Guinness-Walker
- 24Thompson
- 19ReidSubstituted forThompsonat 90+2'minutes
- 11RobertsSubstituted forHemmingsat 90+4'minutes
Substitutes
- 4Thompson
- 10Freeman
- 12MacGillivray
- 18White
- 23Thompson
- 29Hemmings
- 33Oliver
Bolton
Formation 3-1-4-2
- 13Coleman
- 15Forrester
- 5Almeida Santos
- 18Toal
- 8SheehanBooked at 75minsSubstituted forMorleyat 78'minutes
- 12Dacres-Cogley
- 4ThomasonSubstituted forDempseyat 67'minutes
- 19MaghomaBooked at 76mins
- 17OgbetaSubstituted forIredaleat 87'minutes
- 28Collins
- 35JeromeSubstituted forBödvarssonat 66'minutes
Substitutes
- 3Iredale
- 9Bödvarsson
- 16Morley
- 20Ramsay
- 22Dempsey
- 26Ashworth
- 40Hutchinson
- Referee:
- Sam Allison
- Attendance:
- 6,282
Match Stats
- Possession
- Home36%
- Away64%
- Shots
- Home14
- Away10
- Shots on Target
- Home3
- Away4
- Corners
- Home8
- Away4
- Fouls
- Home13
- Away11
Live Text
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Full Time
Second Half ends, Stevenage 0, Bolton Wanderers 0.
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Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Ricardo Santos.
Substitution
Substitution, Stevenage. Kane Hemmings replaces Jordan Roberts.
Substitution
Substitution, Stevenage. Louis Thompson replaces Jamie Reid.
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Offside, Stevenage. Ben Thompson is caught offside.
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Offside, Stevenage. Ben Thompson is caught offside.
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Attempt missed. Dan Butler (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Jack Iredale replaces Nathanael Ogbeta.
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Attempt missed. Ben Thompson (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Roberts.
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Offside, Bolton Wanderers. Jón Bödvarsson is caught offside.
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Foul by Kyle Dempsey (Bolton Wanderers).
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Kane Smith (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Jón Bödvarsson (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Foul by Dan Butler (Stevenage).
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Attempt missed. Jordan Roberts (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Alexander MacDonald with a cross following a corner.
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Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Ricardo Santos.
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Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Aaron Morley.
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Attempt blocked. Kane Smith (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Reid.
Substitution
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Aaron Morley replaces Josh Sheehan.
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One of the most lenient refereeing performances I've seen for a long, long time, lets absolutely everything go for 70 minutes including multiple fouls by MacDonald on both Sheehan and Maghoma, who themselves then get booked for goodness only knows what. Bizarre.
Evans and Evatt EE with no signal.
S'not about promotion, realistically - it's about your fans pride in their team.
Forget about Lord Evans - give us, the fans, four or five wins out the last six games.