PER Frandsen has given Wanderers an unwelcome selection problem for the home game against bottom-of-the-table Crewe on Saturday week.

The Danish midfield star faces an automatic suspension after picking up his eighth booking of the season in Saturday's 2-1 victory over West Brom.

Colin Todd, who already faced a defensive shuffle with Paul Warhurst injured and Mark Fish on international duty for the February 27 game, must now consider adjustments in midfield too.

Frandsen, who had been walking a disciplinary tightrope since picking up his seventh booking at Wolves on December 5, overstepped the mark with his first half foul on Albion midfielder James Quinn and now faces his second league ban of the season.

That was the only blot on an afternoon which saw Wanderers chalk up their sixth successive win, which took them up to second place in the table - their highest league position of the campaign.

Sunderland remain top, eight points ahead, after snatching victory with a controversial last minute penalty at Bristol City but Bradford lost ground when they were held to a scoreless draw at home to Ipswich.

"We're putting pressure on other teams and confidence is good," Todd said after seeing Bob Taylor and Neil Cox get the goals as Wanderers came from behind to extend their unbeaten run to 14 games - far and away the best in the Nationwide League.

"Winning the game was the most important thing but looking at the table now will be a big boost to the players. We're second and we've got to make sure we stay there.

"It's in our own hands now."

Albion went away arguing that they were denied a 54th minute equaliser when the ball crossed the Wanderers line twice in a goalmouth scramble.

No-one in the Bolton camp claimed otherwise but Cox, mindful of the events of September 1, 1997 when Wanderers were denied a goal against Everton in the first ever Reebok fixture which ultimately cost them their Premiership status, put the incident into perspective.

"One or two decisions have gone our way but it evens itself out over a season," he suggested. "We had one like that last season here . . .

"I don't think the linesman could see it from where he was standing. It looked over the line to me but we played on and they played on."

Albion also had two late penalty appeals turned down when Robbie Elliott made vital blocks on Lee Hughes and Matt Carbon but Cox said: "They weren't penalties. It was in front of their fans and they were making all the noise. That's all."

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