Fulham beat Bolton in first away win

Andrew Johnson, Simon Davies and Diomansy Kamara scored for Fulham in a 3-1 victory over Bolton to notch up their first away Premiership win of the season and stop the rot of two consecutive defeats.

Kevin Davies had equalised on the stroke of half-time for Bolton to notch up his 50th goal for the Trotters and remained the club’s top Premier League scorer with 11.

For the statisticians, Bolton’s Matthew Taylor made his 350th club career start, including matches at former clubs Luton and Portsmouth, Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer kept up his run of playing every Premiership match this season, and Johnson bagged his seventh goal of the season.

Neither keeper touched the ball in the opening 15 minutes and the first shot on goal came after the match had already been going for 30 minutes.

Bolton’s Andy O’Brien made a mistake to concede the first goal three minutes before the break when the centre-back poked the ball past keeper Jussi Jaaskelainen, and saw Fulham’s Johnson slide in at the far post to score.

But with seconds of the half remaining, Kevin Davies scored an equaliser. He chested down a long punt to teammate and namesake Mark Davies who returned the pass to the striker and he jinked his way into the area and fired home.

Then in the 56th minute, Simon Davies put Fulham ahead. He got into the box, took a tumble, then got back up and found Danny Murphy whose first shot rebounded off the crossbar. The ball broke back to Davies who hit a low volley into the net in Fulham’s first attack of the second half.

Kamara completed the scoring with Fulham’s third goal in the 88th minute following his low, left-foot drive to punish a foiled attempt by Bolton to clear the ball away.