Bolton ... 1 Sunderland ... 1 An own goal by Phil Babb handed Bolton a barely-deserved point last night as they fought out a scrappy draw with fellow Premiership strugglers Sunderland.

Both remain firmly-rooted to the bottom two places but it may be Sunderland - a point ahead of Bolton - who suffer in the longer term as they lost goalkeeper Thomas Myhre and midfielder Claudio Reyna to injuries in the first-half adding to new manager Howard Wilkinson's worries.

Sunderland had taken the lead in time added on in the first-half as Michael Gray seized on Ivan Campo's dreadful header and unleashed a vicious left-footed shot from 32 yards out which went in off the post.

Babb scored his second own goal of the season - the other was against Russia in the Republic of Ireland's 4-2 Euro 2004 qualifier defeat - when he headed it past Jurgen Macho after Kevin Kilbane had miscued his clearance.

BOLTON: Jaaskelainen, Mendy (Barness 70), N'Gotty, Whitlow, Gardner, Frandsen, Campo, Nolan (Okocha 57), Farrelly, Djorkaeff, Ricketts.Subs Not Used: Poole, Pedersen, Dean Holdsworth. Booked: Campo. Goal: Babb 80 og.

SUNDERLAND: Myhre (Macho 27), Wright, Babb, Craddock, McCartney, Kilbane, Reyna (Thirlwell 39), McCann, Gray, Phillips (Flo 76), Bellion. Subs Not Used: Bjorklund, Piper. Booked: Kilbane, McCann. Goal: Gray 45.

Referee: E Wolstenholme (Lancashire).