Derby County 3-0 Bolton Wanderers

Matej Vydra's best goal tally in an English season was 24 for Watford in 2012-13

Matej Vydra scored his 20th goal of the season as Derby County cruised to a comfortable home win over Bolton.

The Czech forward rolled the ball into an empty net after Ben Alnwick had saved from David Nugent.

It doubled a lead given to Derby in the early stages by Alex Pearce, who headed home Joe Ledley's corner.

Tom Lawrence sealed the points after the break with a 30-yard shot into the corner, while Bolton's David Wheater saw two efforts blocked on the line.

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The win kept Gary Rowett's Rams fifth in the Championship, three points clear of Millwall in seventh, as they look to guarantee a Championship play-off place.

Bolton are 21st, just two points clear of the relegation places following Barnsley's 3-2 win over Sheffield United earlier on Saturday.

Their best efforts came from defenders, with Scott Carson twice denying Mark Beevers in quick, succession, and Wheater foiled twice in a goalmouth scramble.

And substitute Cameron Jerome could have stretched Derby's lead late on, but headed wide from Chris Baird's cross.

Derby boss Gary Rowett told BBC Radio Derby:

"We controlled the game without the ball and it actually gave us really good opportunities to get into attacking areas.

"When you see that, you see some of our incisive players - but give them space and they'll hurt any team, and I thought that's what we did.

"We should have had more, first half, and were a little bit wasteful with our finishing, but I felt we did enough."

Bolton boss Phil Parkinson told BBC Radio Manchester:

"We gave ourselves a mountain to climb. I'm very disappointed with the first goal because it was easily avoidable - we didn't deal with a very basic set play.

"We gave ourselves a lot of work to do against a team who have obviously struggled recently at home, and we gave them a huge lift.

"The first goal gave a team who were nervous last time here against Sunderland a massive lift. It lifted the crowd and it was a very, very soft goal. From now on in, we have got to be more resilient at keeping the ball out of the back of our net."

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Line-ups

Derby

• 1Carson
• 14Wisdom
• 16Pearce
• 33Davies
• 12BairdBooked at 80mins
• 36Ledley
• 44Huddlestone
• 19Weimann
• 23VydraSubstituted forPalmerat 69'minutes
• 10LawrenceSubstituted forThomasat 85'minutes
• 28NugentSubstituted forJeromeat 69'minutes

Substitutes

• 3Forsyth
• 6Keogh
• 7Palmer
• 21Roos
• 26Hanson
• 32Jerome
• 45Thomas

Bolton

• 13Alnwick
• 2Little
• 32BurkeSubstituted forNooneat 45'minutes
• 31Wheater
• 5Beevers
• 15Robinson
• 6Vela
• 24HenrySubstituted forDerikat 75'minutes
• 8Karacan
• 9Le FondreBooked at 78mins
• 18WilbrahamSubstituted forAmeobiat 45'minutes

Substitutes

• 3Taylor
• 4Dervite
• 10Ameobi
• 12Noone
• 17Derik
• 33Howard
• 40Clough

Referee:

Darren England

Attendance:

25,723

Match Stats

Home TeamDerbyAway TeamBolton

Possession

Home54%

Away46%

Shots

Home9

Away9

Shots on Target

Home5

Away2

Corners

Home5

Away5

Fouls

Home15

Away7

Live Text

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Match ends, Derby County 3, Bolton Wanderers 0.

Full Time

Posted at 90'+3'

Second Half ends, Derby County 3, Bolton Wanderers 0.

Posted at 90'+1'

Attempt missed. Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Josh Vela.

Posted at 89'

Foul by Alex Pearce (Derby County).

Posted at 89'

Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.

Posted at 88'

Attempt missed. Cameron Jerome (Derby County) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Chris Baird with a cross following a corner.

Posted at 88'

Corner, Derby County. Conceded by Mark Little.

Posted at 87'

Attempt missed. Kasey Palmer (Derby County) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Chris Baird with a cross following a corner.

Posted at 87'

Corner, Derby County. Conceded by Derik.

Substitution

Posted at 85'

Substitution, Derby County. Luke Thomas replaces Tom Lawrence.

Posted at 81'

Foul by Andre Wisdom (Derby County).

Posted at 81'

Craig Noone (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.

Posted at 81'

Attempt blocked. David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.

Posted at 81'

Attempt blocked. Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Wheater with a headed pass.

Booking

Posted at 80'

Chris Baird (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

Posted at 80'

Foul by Chris Baird (Derby County).

Posted at 80'

Mark Little (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.

Booking

Posted at 78'

Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.

Posted at 77'

Foul by Cameron Jerome (Derby County).

Posted at 77'

Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 76'

Foul by Kasey Palmer (Derby County).

Posted at 76'

Jem Karacan (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.

Posted at 75'

Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Scott Carson.

Posted at 75'

Attempt saved. Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Josh Vela with a cross.

Posted at 75'

Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Scott Carson.

Posted at 75'

Attempt saved. Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Josh Vela with a cross.

Substitution

Posted at 75'

Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Derik replaces Karl Henry.

Posted at 74'

Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Chris Baird.

Posted at 72'

Attempt blocked. Cameron Jerome (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kasey Palmer.

Substitution

Posted at 69'

Substitution, Derby County. Kasey Palmer replaces Matej Vydra.

Substitution

Posted at 69'

Substitution, Derby County. Cameron Jerome replaces David Nugent.

Posted at 69'

Foul by Andreas Weimann (Derby County).

Posted at 69'

Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.

Posted at 63'

Sammy Ameobi (Bolton Wanderers) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box following a corner.

Posted at 62'

Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Andre Wisdom.

Posted at 62'

Attempt blocked. Craig Noone (Bolton Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mark Little with a cross.

Posted at 58'

Attempt missed. Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Sammy Ameobi.

Goal!

Posted at 54'

Goal! Derby County 3, Bolton Wanderers 0. Tom Lawrence (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Curtis Davies with a headed pass.

Posted at 51'

David Nugent (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 51'

Foul by David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers).

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