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Yanic Wildschut also scored Bolton's winner at West Brom on the opening day of the season

Bolton Wanderers maintained their unbeaten start to the Championship season as they beat Reading at the Madejski Stadium.

Reading almost led through Yakou Meite before David Wheater cleared, while at the other end Vito Mannone saved Will Buckley's close-range effort.

Yanic Wildschut gave the visitors the lead after the break when he latched on to Craig Noone's through ball to coolly finish.

The Royals came close to a late equaliser when John Swift played Jon Dadi Bodvarsson into space, but Jason Lowe cleared the danger.

Meite was one of three Reading players to come off injured in their midweek EFL Cup win against Birmingham City but the winger recovered in time for the visit of Bolton.

The Trotters, fresh from making 10 changes in their cup defeat by Leeds, added to Reading's misery as they consigned them to a third consecutive defeat.

Reading have not lost their first three games in a league campaign since 1959-60, but they offered little to threaten Bolton's back line, particularly after Wildschut found the net.

It was the first time Bolton have beaten Reading outside the top flight since October 1996, a game in which Wanderers boss Phil Parkinson featured for the Royals.

Reading boss Paul Clement told BBC Radio Berkshire:

"[I'm] really unhappy. Three games have gone by now and we've not got one point on the board after the performances we've put in.

"I can't stand here and say we've been unlucky - we've not done well enough. That's the reason we haven't got any points on the board.

"Of course there were some good things, and territorially we were in and around their box a lot, but we couldn't find that moment of quality. I've got to do much better as manager of this team, coaching them better to find solutions against a team that come like that, play direct football, get their goal from an awful mistake and then just camp behind it."

Bolton boss Phil Parkinson said:

"I'm absolutely delighted with that. It was a hard game and we had to push ourselves to get the result.

"They were hot, humid and sticky conditions and we've had to push ourselves right to the wire.

"This really gives us something to build on, even though it's still early in the season. Psychologically, that's a great boost for us."