Forest Green suffered defeat to Bolton Wanderers this afternoon, as the visitors ran out 1-0 winners at The innocent New Lawn.

It was Bolton's leading scorer, Eoin Doyle, who smashed home the all-important goal shortly before the break.

Mark Cooper made just one change to the side that drew with Mansfield Town in midweek, as Jordan Moore-Taylor returned to the side after a sitting out with a broken arm.

Rovers were dealt a heavy blow inside three minutes, as Jamille Matt was stretchered off with a nasty looking hand injury.

After a cagey start, it was a bursting run from the dynamic Kane Wilson that first opened up the Bolton backline, steaming into the box on the left before seeing his effort palmed away at the near post.

Lewis Thomas had his first taste of the action after 26 minutes as he smothered a long-range effort from George Thomason.

Shortly after the half hour mark, Rovers probably should have taken the lead.

Aaron Collins blistered past Ricardo Santos to put himself in a shooting position, but instead teed up substitute Josh Davison who couldn't get the ball out of his feet and was tackled.

Rovers' first-half fortunes went from bad to worse with six minutes to go, as Nathan Delfouneso's cross was met by Doyle who slammed home a neat volley.

It was a half of very little goalmouth action for either side, Bolton shutting the game down at every opportunity.

With 72 minutes on the clock Collins saw a deflected effort gathered by Matt Gilks, before Cargill's header from a corner was cleared.