WANDERERS PRODUCED their best performance of the season but spoiled a good night's work right at the death as two last-gasp goals deprived Jimmy Phillips' men of only their second league win of the season.

The hosts looked to have the points in the bag thanks to goals either side of half-time from David Gbemie and Leslie Thompson.

But further chances went begging and after Shola Ameobi had headed one back in the final minute of normal time Newcastle snatched a draw with virtually the last kick of the game three minutes into added time when substitute Wesley Ngo Baheng equalised.

Newcastle had started brightly with Ameobi and former Preston loan man Andy Carroll both going close in front of the watching management team of Kevin Keegan, Terry McDermott and Chris Hughton.

The trio were running their eye over new signing Lamine Diatta but the Senegal international was given a tough night by Bolton striker Johan Smith, who was let down only by his finishing.

Smith had two chances to score before Bolton deservedly went ahead when Gbemie came forward for a corner and followed up a Smith shot to poke home his first goal of the season two minutes before the break.

Forster then denied Robert Sissons a second with a smart block but the keeper should have been beaten early in the second half when Smith again went clear.

Thompson was then unlucky to see a lob drop just wide but got his name on the scoresheet when Bolton went 2-0 up with just 11 minutes to go, tapping in after Kevin Wolze had a hit a post from Smith's cross after a thumping tackle from Sissons had set up the decisive break.

That should have been enough to end Bolton's home league programme on a high note but despite rarely threatening Newcastle produced two late goals out of nothing to steal a point.

Ameobi nodded in the first from a Mark Doninger free-kick and then a defensive lapse allowed Ngo Baheng, who spent a short spell at the Reebok Stadium last season, to sneak in and beat Adam Bogdan with a low shot into the bottom corner.

Bolton Wanderers: Bogdan, Sinclair, Carlisle, Sissons, Gbemie, Stokes, Thompson, Sheridan, Smith, Wolze, Woolfe. Substitutes: Harsanyi, Lainton, Burns, Mooy, McDonald.

Newcastle: Forster, Tozer, Kadar, Edgar, Diatta, Ramage (Lough 65), Godsmark (Ngo Baheng 79), Doninger, Ameobi, Carroll, LuaLua (Zamblera 89).