Championship · Matchday 11 Match report

Southampton 0-0 Bolton Wanderers: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Southampton

0-0Full time

Bolton Wanderers

Saturday 17 October 2026, 14:00 UTC St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton, Hampshire

Our picks against the result

6 of 12 right

Result Southampton win59% 0-0
Double chance Southampton or draw (1X)82% 0-0
Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.565% 0 goals
More corners Southampton67% Southampton (5-3)
Yellow cards Above average 0 yellow cards · league 3.0
Yellow cards 0 yellow cards 3.5 Under55% 4.5 Under74% 5.5 Under87%
Corners Around average 8 corners · league 10.5
Corners 8 corners 8.5 Over66% 9.5 Over56% 10.5 Under55%

Match stats

Southampton Bolton Wanderers

0 Goals 0
0 Yellow cards 0
0 Red cards 0
5 Corners 3

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Southampton vs Bolton Wanderers meet at St. Mary's Stadium in the Championship on Saturday 17 October 2026, Matchday 11. Our pick is a Southampton win, with Southampton win or draw as the double chance.

Why this pick?

Our model backs Southampton, chiefly because its strength rating puts it well clear of Bolton Wanderers, who sit below the Championship average. Southampton's attack is rated among the best in the division and Bolton's defence at the foot of it, with the hosts creating big chances well above the league average while conceding them well below, and Bolton giving up big chances clearly more often than average. The counter-argument is Bolton's away form, with wins at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Norwich City in their last five. That does not change the picture: home advantage and third against fourteenth point the same way. Our model rates the call moderate.

Form guide

Southampton

W 1-0 at Norwich City (A) Championship · 14 Oct
W 1-0 vs Portsmouth (H) Championship · 11 Oct
L 1-2 at Wrexham (A) Championship · 19 Sep
W 4-1 vs Bristol City (H) Championship · 12 Sep
W 3-1 vs Swansea City (H) Championship · 8 Sep

Bolton Wanderers

W 3-1 at Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) Championship · 13 Oct
L 1-2 vs Stoke City (H) Championship · 10 Oct
W 4-3 at Norwich City (A) Championship · 20 Sep
W 1-0 vs Cardiff City (H) Championship · 12 Sep
L 2-3 vs West Ham United (H) Championship · 8 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

SouthamptonBolton Wanderers

Attack 96 30 2.1 goals per match this season1.5 goals per match this season

Defence 65 0 1.0 conceded per match this season1.8 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Championship clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.