John McAtee played 40 league games for Barnsley in the 2023-24 season
Former Barnsley striker John McAtee returned to haunt his old side with a late equaliser as Bolton took a point home from a 1-1 League One draw at Oakwell.
The hosts, who were reduced to 10 men after 52 minutes, clung on to secure a point.
After a goalless first half, it took just two minutes of the second for David McGoldrick to give Barnsley the lead.
Captain Luca Connell expertly played through the 37-year-old on the left and he made no mistake, firing the ball in past Teddy Sharman-Lowe in the Bolton goal.
The Trotters almost equalised three minutes later as Eoin Toal headed against the post from a Thierry Gale cross.
Vimal Yoganathan was sent off in the 52nd minute, as he picked up a second yellow card for bringing down Josh Dacres-Cogley in the middle of the pitch after he had been booked in the first half following a scuffle with Mason Burstow.
Bolton made the extra man count in the 86th minute as ex-Barnsley man McAtee scored from close range to level the game.
McAtee could have won it in the sixth minute of added time but headed wide of Murphy Cooper's goal.
Report supplied by PA Media.
Post-match reaction
Conor Hourihane: 'Lots of pleasing aspects' (BBC Radio Sheffield)
'From last year, chalk and cheese' - Steven Schumacher (BBC Radio Manchester)
