Sam Allardyce has stated that he will continue to make brave team selections in an effort to keep Wanderers on course for success on the domestic and European fronts.
"We've been planning it for a while,"
"The big thing, from my point of view, is having to be brave enough.
"I know it sounds like blowing my own trumpet but it's about leaving people out and putting other people in to find out what they can do.
"That was why we won the game yesterday. Yes, we were lucky, but we used the squad, which we knew we would have to do."
"This was such a big victory for us," he said. "City are an in-form side, having had a great start to the season. They've been playing well while we had to cope with having played in Europe on Thursday night before taking on a team that already had 11 points on the board.
"Beating them has put us on 11 and into the top four or five in the Premiership and that makes a massive statement to this league about Bolton Wanderers and what they are trying to achieve on less (resources) than most.
"We knew it would be a huge effort to get a result at Manchester City because of their start and the fact that our efforts in the UEFA Cup had made us less sharp and a little more fatigued than them.
"I didn't think we would have to defend as much as we had to, but we managed to get the all-important clean sheet ñ as lucky as it might have been ñ and when we woke up today the scoreline said 1-0 to Bolton and three clean sheets out of six.
"We only kept two clean sheets in the first 22 games last season so, if we continue with that ratio, we're going to be in the top half again and getting into Europe again!"