{"id":330966,"date":"2025-08-09T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330966\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:26:12","slug":"bolton-wanderers-2-0-plymouth-argyle-trotters-impress-in-victory-over-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330966\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Plymouth Argyle: Trotters impress in victory over Pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Schumacher celebrated victory over former club Plymouth as loan striker Mason Burstow’s home debut goal sealed Bolton’s 2-0 League One success at the Toughsheet Community Stadium.<\/b><\/p>\n

Captain Eoin Toal headed in Josh Sheehan’s corner to give Wanderers a 20th-minute lead.<\/p>\n

Burstow, whose last goal was for parent club Hull in December 2024, sealed Bolton’s first win of the new campaign, tapping in Amario Cozier-Duberry’s cross on the hour.<\/p>\n

Wanderers’ triumph was the perfect response for boss Schumacher after his side’s 2-0 opening-day defeat at Stockport.<\/p>\n

But the team he took to the 2022-23 third-tier title are winless under current manager Tom Cleverley, now beaten twice with just one goal scored and five conceded.<\/p>\n

Argyle had not lost a league game at Bolton since 1993 and were bidding for a fourth victory in five league meetings against their hosts.<\/p>\n

Instead, they failed to produce a shot on target to test home debutant keeper Teddy Sharman-Lowe.<\/p>\n

Kornel Szucs headed over late on and ex-Wanderer Xavier Amaechi flashed a first-half free-kick wide but Argyle finished well beaten.<\/p>\n

Match report supplied by PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Schumacher celebrated victory over former club Plymouth as loan striker Mason Burstow’s home debut goal sealed Bolton’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-330966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114999747126297403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}