Uefa Cup / Guimaraes 1 - 1 Bolton: Ricardo Vaz Te scored a stunning late equaliser as Bolton edged closer to the knockout stages of the Uefa Cup.

Marek Saganowski looked to have won the game for Guimaraes with a perfect diving header in the 86th minute. But Vaz Te, on as an 87th-minute substitute hammered a shot past Paiva after El-Hadji Diouf's set-up.

Bolton know victory against Sevilla in their final group game on December 14th will guarantee their progress. The dramatic ending to the match was somewhat at odds with a match which offered very little in the way of goalmouth incident. Bolton took 75 minutes to fashion their first shot on goal, and Guimaraes were hardly more incisive.

The home side looked the slicker outfit in the opening stages - perhaps surprisingly for a side languishing third from bottom in the Portuguese Liga. But their attacking play was limited to a couple of long shots from Saganowski and one from Sebastian Svard - and Jussi Jaaskelainen saved comfortably from all of them.

Indeed, for all their industry, the Portuguese side were thankful on 32 minutes when Kevin Nolan almost gave Bolton the lead. The skipper neatly juggled the ball after Abdoulaye Faye's flick on, and he prodded it inches wide past the despairing dive of goalkeeper Paiva. Nolan was Bolton's brightest spark in the first half, and a testing cross four minutes before the break caused problems in the Guimaraes defence, although the home team cleared.

After the break, lively substitute Diouf caused problems with a low cross and Nolan fired a shot into the side-netting with Paiva diving. Stelios Giannakopoulos forced the first real save towards the end as he broke forward and fired in a low drive which Paiva gathered at the second attempt.

But the drama came late on. Bolton's defence had barely looked like being breached, but Saganowski converted the first chance which came his way as he pulled free of his marker and converted Tiago Targino's cross.

It looked all over for Bolton, but Portuguese youngster Vaz Te - who had been on the field for just over one minute - latched on to Diouf's knockdown to rifle an unstoppable shot into the corner.

GUIMARAES: Paiva, Mario Sergio, Dragoner, Cleber, Rogerio Matias, Svard, Flavio Meireles, Benachour, Neca (Paulo Sergio 82), Dario (Targino 60), Saganowski. Subs Not Used: Pedro Freitas, Moreno, Geromel, Manoel, Zezinho. Booked: Dragoner, Targino. Goals: Saganowski 86.

BOLTON: Jaaskelainen, O'Brien, Ben Haim, N'Gotty, Gardner, Nakata (Speed 59), Faye, Okocha (Vaz Te 87), Nolan, Borgetti (Diouf 64), Giannakopoulos. Subs Not Used: Walker, Hunt, Fadiga, Jaidi. Booked: Jaaskelainen, O'Brien. Goals: Vaz Te 88.

Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France).