Stoke City 5-0 Bolton Wanderers Official Highlights | The FA Cup semi final 17/04/11
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Three first-half goals helped Stoke City demolish Bolton Wanderers and reach the FA Cup final for the first time in their history.
Aided by some woeful Bolton defending, Matthew Etherington, Robert Huth and Kenwyne Jones scored in the first half-hour and two goals by Jon Walters after the break completed the victory.
Stoke, roared on by their vociferous fans, can look forward to returning to Wembley to face Manchester City in the final on 14 May.
Their other reward is a possible place in the Europa League, either through winning the FA Cup or if City secure fourth place in the league and enter the Champions League - which will mean the Cup runners-up gain the European spot.
For Wanderers, however, the occasion was a massive anti-climax as their hopes of reaching a first final since 1958 in tribute to the late Nat Lofthouse were quickly left in ruins.
Bolton were given an ominous warning in the opening minutes when they were caught napping by a quickly taken Stoke free-kick that enabled Walters to escape down the left before being denied by Jussi Jaaskelainen.
Bolton did manage a couple of efforts at the other end, with Gary Cahill blasting over from a corner and Johan Elmander failing to test Thomas Sorensen with a low shot from distance.
But their big day began to disintegrate from the moment a misplaced pass by Paul Robinson found Etherington on the edge of the area and the winger composed himself before lashing a fierce shot into the corner of the net.
Things quickly got worse for Bolton and, again, their defending was at fault. Cahill got no distance on his header as he tried to clear a cross and Huth met the bouncing ball with a first-time shot that flew past Jaaskelainen's despairing dive.
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Bolton are shit and GO ON STOKE!
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another vintage display by Gary Cahill
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ye, but we reversed it in spectacular fashion, so leeroytheatheist check out the prem defeat because, u may not have noticed, but we absolutely kicked ur ass at the reebok, screamer from eagles, cracker frrom klasnic, wht can u do???
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god i wish they would start winning again tho it would crush me if they got relagted
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harry redknapp needs to take over as manger, that way theyll be harry and the potters !
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Best day of my life ! GO ON U POTTERS !
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Jon Walters...What a player!!!!!
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STOKE THE GIANTS!!!!! i think they're the tallest team in EPL?
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Definitely the best footballing day ever! We're Stoke, we'll win at Wembley whenever we want.
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Great performance by Stoke i wish them luck in they final, they deserve to win. They are underated team and deserve a piece of silverware this season.
zakariya786786 10 months ago 93
GO ON YOU POTTERS!!!
benchdiamond 10 months ago 19