City put two successive defeats behind them with this win and Keegan said: "That performance on a difficult surface was excellent. Apart from the first 20 minutes we limited them to just Peter Schmeichel's double save at the end.
"This is a difficult division, apart from the top four it's dog eat dog, and we have just eaten one of the dogs.
"We thoroughly deserved to win, Nicolas Anelka and Eyal Berkovic were both outstanding.
"Bolton have beaten Manchester United and put four past Leeds recently, so they will beat a lot of sides, hopefully the sides that we want them to take points off.''
Bolton Match Report