By Mark Heys
October 3 2007

Leading Macedonian side FK Rabotnicki are the visitors to Bolton Wanderers tommorow evening when UEFA Cup football makes its long awaited return to the Reebok Stadium for the first time in eighteen months.

Rabotnicki gallantly held the Wanderers to a draw in Skopje a fortnight ago and they could have won the game but for Abdoulaye Meite's late goal courtesy of a goalkeeping mistake by Filipe Madzovski.

The English side know their crucial late away goal is a huge boost to their hopes of progression but Rabotnicki coach Dragoljub Bekvalac is sending his side out in the hope of producing another performance of note.

A place in the Group stages awaits either of this side and Bolton will be hopeful of repeating their success of two seasons ago when they made the final 32 of the competition.

Wanderers are under no illusions about the task which lies ahead and a win for them could help to restart their flagging Premiership form which has seen them take just one win all season.

Their opponents Rabotnicki on the other hand are undefeated in their domestic league so far, winning six and drawing two of their eight games so far and lying two points ahead of their nearest challenger FK Milano.

Bolton manager Sammy Lee is without the ineligable Ivan Campo after the ex-Real Madrid star was not registered by the club when the European squads where handed in at the end of August.

Stelios Giannakopoulos has been registered and could play some part after being involved in the Trotters last two fixtures on the road at Fulham and Derby County.

Right back Joey O'Brien has an outside chance of making the starting line up despite limping out of the draw with Derby but fellow full back Jllloyd Samuel is not fully fit.

Swedish winger Christian Wilhelmsson will be pushing for only his second Bolton start after making an impression during the second half at Pride Park.

Rabotnicki hope to welcome back defensive duo Sasko Lazarevski and Zeljko Kovacevic to their European squad after the pair missed the first game through suspension.

LAST TIME WE MET

20/09/2007 FK RABOTNICKI 1 (Milisavljevic 53) BOLTON WANDERERS 1 (Meite 84)

BOLTON WANDERERS: Jussi Jaaskelainen, Nicky Hunt (Joey O'Brien), Abdoulaye Meite, Gerald Cid (Andy O'Brien), Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Nolan, Gavin McCann (Daniel Braaten), Gary Speed, Kevin Davies, Nicolas Anelka, El-Hadji Diouf

SUBS NOT USED: Andranik Teimourian, Danny Guthrie, Mikel Alonso, Ali Al-Habsi (GK)

FK RABOTNICKI: Filipe Madzovski, Ertan Demiri, Lazar Stanisic, Misas Osmani (Ivan Pejcic), Ivan Trickovski (Ismet Selim), Adekunle Lukmon, Nikola Gligorov, Nemanja Milisavljevic (Krste Velkovski), Vasko Bozinovski, Miloslav Vajas, Nderim Nedzipi

SUBS NOT USED: Emir Sabani, Saso Gjorkski, Idrizi Mensur, Tome Pacovski (GK)