Posted on February 18, 2012
LONDON — Bolton Wanderers manager Owen Coyle gave former New York Red Bulls central defender Tim Ream a thumb’s up on his team debut in the club’s 2-0 English F.A. Cup win over Millwall on Saturday.
Ryo Miyaichi scored four minutes into the match and David N’Gog added an insurance goal in the second half.
“We freshened the side with Tim Ream making his debut for us,” Coyle said at the post-match press conference. “Obviously Ryo also started for the first time and I was delighted at how the two of them played, along with the whole team in general.
“Ryo took his goal well and that gave us a great start and from then on we were able to go from strength-to-strength.”
Ream played the entire 90 minutes of the match, which was televised in the United States on Fox Soccer Plus, and acquitted himself well.
Around the 70th minute Ream did well to control a Millwall cross but he tried an ambitious pass in a dangerous area. Millwall’s Liam Trotter got the ball and shot, but goalkeeper Adam Bogdan saved.
Ream was acquired in a $2.5 million transfer deal with the Red Bulls last month.
Bolton’s next match is set for Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in this city on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Categories: North America, U.S.A.
Tags: Bolton Wanderers, English F.A. Cup, Millwall, New York Red Bulls, Tim Ream
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