Bolton boss Phil Parkinson felt Jonathan Grounds should have stopped Kasey Palmer in his tracks in the lead up to Rovers’ goal in the win at Bolton.

Bradley Dack tucked home his eighth goal of the season midway through the first half as Rovers chalked up a first win in seven attempts away from home against Wanderers.

Palmer started the move which led to the goal when turning away from Grounds on the halfway line, with Parkinson feeling his full back should have taken a yellow card for a foul and stopped the move progressing further.

“One mistake has led to the goal,” he told the Bolton News.

“Groundsy should have brought him down,” he said.

“We just said that to him in the dressing room. Joe Williams did it in the second half and sometimes you have got to take a booking on the halfway line. We do that, the game comes in at half time 0-0.”

David Raya made saves from Will Buckley and Josh Magennis in the first half, but Bolton struggled to create anything of note in the second half as Rovers held on for a clean sheet.

Assessing his side, Parkinson added: “Our final ball into the box, or through to the strikers to create chances for the strikers wasn’t good enough.

“We can say ‘well done’ because there were some good performances but they weren’t in the wide areas where we needed players to produce. That’s what has cost us.

“We dominated the game, had chances, and some of the football we played was excellent. But once we got into those areas we need that touch of quality, not to be hitting the first man, or not being positive enough.

“There have been some excellent performances all over the pitch but none of those seven or eights out of 10 were in key areas where we really needed them.”

The Wanderers boss says he couldn’t fault his players’ effort, believing they should have got something out of the game.

“It’s always frustrating when you get beat,” he said.

“We can take some positive aspects of the play but equally I can’t go in the dressing room and say ‘well done lads, fantastic,’ because it’s a game we should have got something out of it.

 “We had some great moments – Magennis had one cleared off the line, one tipped over, Joe Williams had a good one, Bucko had a good shot when it came to his right foot, we had the majority of the play but it wasn’t to be.

“The lads gave it everything but it wasn’t to be.”