Everton 1 Bolton Wanderers 2

Baxter 24; O'Halloran 59, Harsanyi 60 pen

Two goals in the space of a minute ensured that Wanderers ended their season on a high note, coming from behind to seal all three points at the Stobart Stadium.

Michael O'Halloran grabbed the headlines by cancelling out Jose Baxter's first half opener for Everton and then winning the penalty seconds later from which Zoltan Harsanyi fired home the winner.

And whilst it wasn't enough to claw Bolton off the bottom of the Premier Reserve League North table, with the mathematics against them, it ensured a satisfying ending to the league campaign and sets the side up nicely for their Manchester Senior Cup Final against Manchester City.

O'Halloran, who seemed to be in the right place for the entire 90 minutes, was heavily involved in many of Wanderers' first half chances, with one early effort blocked mid box and another ending up in the lap of keeper Ian Turner after being deflected along the way.

He created his own opening when getting the better of the stand out name on the team sheet, Swiss defender Philippe Senderos, but unfortunately the pace in the shot couldn't match the quality of the turn that beat the international.

Despite these openings, Wanderers went into the break behind to a slick Everton side.

Having repelled a run of promising attacks, centre halves Chris Stokes and Rhys Bennett threw themselves at one ball too many at the mid point of the half and ended up depriving one another of possession as they collided on the edge of the box. The loose ball landed into the path of Toffees forward Jose Baxter, and his low shot from 12 yards gave stranded keeper Rob Lainton no chance.

It should have been two, with just two minutes of the second half played, but Bolton enjoyed a big let off when Hope Akpan fired well wide from point blank range after the offside flag surprisingly stayed down, and moments later the tricky Baxter missed the angle of the goal frame by millimetres at the start of a spell in which he looked to fire goalwards at will.

Stokes was perfectly placed to block from the livewire forward as he looked set to double the advantage from Forshaw's incisive low cross, and then it took a deflection to take a crashing drive spinning over the bar and safely away for a corner.

The battle of the opposing number tens was far from a one sided contest though, and two key interventions in the space of a minute from O'Halloran turned the game on its head.

First, he latched onto a stray backpass to give him time and space to pick a shot from the edge of the box, and he did so with aplomb, comfortably finding the bottom corner despite having Turner and a covering defender on the line to beat.

Then, with Wanderers pressing straight from the re-start, he was bundled over in the box by Shane Duffy, having got the better of the centre half, and Zoltan Harsanyi thumped home the resulting penalty.

O'Halloran was the width of Duffy's shin away from his side's third as the defender made a block within his own six yard box, and though Baxter was at the heart of an inevitable push for a leveller, Wanderers held on to seal a satisfying end to their league campaign.

Everton: Turner, Mustafi, Garbutt, Peterlin (McAleny 66), Duffy, Senderos (Nsiala 46), Forshaw, Akpan, Wallace, Baxter, Donegan. Subs not used: Davies, Kinsella, Craig.

Wanderers: Lainton, Riley, Blakeman, Stokes, Bennett, McDonald, Campbell (Sampson 46), Sheridan, Vaz Te, O'Halloran, Harsanyi. Subs not used: Burns, Lynch, Irwin, Stayte.

Referee: Mr M Bristow.

Attendance: 177.

By Adrian Ward