The Bolton Wanderers will be back in the second division tomorrow night when they make the short trip to Salford City.
The whites are heading to Peninsula Stadium tomorrow night to face Ammies.
The clash was originally scheduled to take place in early February but was postponed and rearranged on that occasion due to a damp place.
With Gary Bowyer, who has replaced Richie Wellens, who replaced Graham Alexander at the beginning of the season, the Wanderer will now take on Salford as the third manager of the season.
The Ammies are ninth in the table, three points from the play-offs, and have won their last two games in a row.
And the whites are currently third in the second division and want to consolidate their position in the top three with a win.
Before the game, Wanderers manager Ian Evatt spoke to the media at a pre-game press conference. Here’s what he had to say to the network, starting with today’s decision to end Marcus Maddison’s loan period early for the club.
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From everyone’s point of view, it doesn’t seem to have worked out for Marcus Maddison?
“No, but I think we should respect Marcus’s privacy at this point and some things are more important than football.
“Mental health and well-being are vital to us and Marcus deserves all the support he needs to be happy and in a better place.”
I am sure you would like to wish him all the best for the future?
“Absolutely and he has had my full support all along and he will continue even if I am not his manager, to have my full support and any help I can give him to move forward, I am always on End of a phone. ”
There are still a few very important days left, starting with the trip to Salford?
“It’s an important four weeks. It’s a difficult game, but we’re looking forward to it. “
How do you think about Easter and victory over the weekend?
“We know what to do and luckily it is now firmly in our own hands. We are the makers of our own destiny so we have to go there and play the best we can.
“There was some frustration with the Easter weekend even though we didn’t play well on Friday. I thought we scored a legitimate goal and on Monday we played really well and got nothing. Fortunately, we had an excellent second half on Saturday bestows. ” us three points. “
Are you looking at the squad strength in the final furlong of the season?
“Yes, and we have to take every game the way it should and we will look at the opponents and analyze them and choose the right team.
“A lot of the guys are now in a good routine and apart from injuries the teams are in good shape, they know their own jobs, they play well and we have good competition for places.”
“The good news is that Antoni Sarcevic had another good session with the rehab boys and physiotherapists today, so he’s making really good progress.”
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There was a change in leadership at Forest Green Rovers that Mark Cooper continued with?
“I don’t want to talk about other people’s clubs and I don’t know the pros and cons, but they felt it was appropriate to change that and that is their calling and decision. Fortunately, I have a chairman and a board of directors who believed in me in the dark ages, and we held on to our beliefs.
“Hopefully at some point it turned out well and we can do the job. I never like it when someone loses their job.”
It seemed that George Thomason’s contribution in the second half was the turning point for the win?
“First and foremost, it wasn’t just Marcus’s fault that things didn’t go right in the first half, there were a lot of subpar performances and we couldn’t deal with the nature of their intensity and the nature of the press, and we didn’t Done Find out and find solutions in the first quarter of the game. It was the first 20 to 25 minutes that we struggled with.
“After that we certainly got better, certainly in the second half, but towards the end of the first half we started to gain some control just because a team was 4-4-2 and they hit a high.” Push, the third and free midfielder becomes the exit and the way you can build attacks, and we didn’t use that well enough in the first and second halves. George came over to it.
“He was an extra midfielder and someone who could pick up the ball in tight areas, especially deep, and play it forward. We then managed to find some control and gain momentum.”
The 4-4-2 and the press are a very effective way for teams to win games and receive honors. Is it going to be a little exhausting for the players? How important will fitness level be in these last six games?
“There aren’t many top teams that sacrifice possession. They are all teams with high pressure on the forefoot, regardless of whether it is a full-on-high-pressing team or a mid-block pressing. There aren’t many times, probably other than Jose Mourinho’s teams, that sacrifice possession and try to counter-attack.
“The law of averages says that the higher the pitch you win the ball in, the greater the chance of scoring. For example, if you look at our two goals on Saturday, the first goal was a very good builder to get it achieve.” to Lloyd Isgrove in the pockets of space that we wanted to work on.
“He actually gave the ball away but then immediately squeezed it, won it back and went through and scored. The second was a full push that forced the defender into a mistake.
“It is no coincidence and it is hard work to understand what we are doing on the training ground, that makes me happy.
“Especially in this division, the more pressure you exert on the field, the more difficult it is for opponents to throw high-quality balls into large, physically strong target men. The majority of teams in this league play for territory and for their front men.” If we can limit that by pushing high, we will, and that’s why I like to change front players late in the games to keep that energy, intensity and high press going. “
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The fitness side of the game will be crucial and need to find a way to bypass a very physical breakup? Bolton is where they are for good reason and the quality of the football second half of the season has been an absolute delight and a lot of teams don’t know how to handle it?
“The good thing for me is that we will only improve and improve. We find solutions and work on solutions for the different appearances that the opposition offers you.
“For example, on Saturday, the previous home games, teams came in and camped in low blocks. With all the analysis we do, we can tell the players that this is what we think, but like Harrogate.” Saturday, honoring them, came and really tried us.
“The players have to find the solutions themselves on the field and we can’t wait until half time for me to make the changes and show them where the pitch is – they have to find out for themselves.”
“It only comes from practice, from analyst clips that analyze games, what we can and can’t do better. If they do this, we do it, if they do, we do this, and finally we do it.” I’ll pick it up and of course I’ll do it.
“But at the moment we’re still very much part of the learning process, but we’re doing very well.”
Are you still hoping to finish in the top seven at Salford so it feels like one of the toughest away trips of the remaining games?
“Absolutely, they are unbeaten at home all season so it will be a tough game, there are no two options and they are definitely trying to get into the top 7 and rightly so with what they are spending and the players who they are. I’m in the football club.
“But for us it’s about what we do and we’re going to go there and try to implement the game plan, bring the game to them.
“The really nice thing for me is that every game we watch from now until the end of the season, probably unlike the last game, has something at stake and the teams are either trying to make it to the play-offs. ” I think it’s going to be a good game. “