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Phil Parkinson believes Wanderers will be a different prospect now they have had a chance to regroup on the training ground.
Signs of fatigue showed in Saturday’s defeat at Scunthorpe United but with a full week to prepare for Oldham Athletic, the Whites boss reckons his side will move on quickly to resume their promotion chase.
Fleetwood go to Peterborough and Bradford host Oxford United on Good Friday, meaning Parkinson will know exactly what he has to do at Boundary Park.
And with extra time to prepare his players, he does not anticipate any lasting reaction from the minor setback at Glanford Park.
“I think it’s important we get a chance to recharge the batteries,” he told The Bolton News. “You lose a game and naturally you are lower than when you win, and we’d been on a high after the Southend result.
“But I don’t need to pick the players up, probably because it turned out the points gap was the same to Fleetwood, only with a game less to play.
“We just need to keep doing what we are doing, concentrate on our recovery and plan for the Oldham game.”
Parkinson inherited a team last summer which had failed to win an away game in more than a year but this season is second only to Sheffield United on the road.
The Whites have taken 37 points away from the Macron Stadium, including 11 wins, and though defeat at Scunthorpe meant they were unable to equal a club record sixth win on the spin, the manager still believes his side are in an enviable position.
“When we had 12 games left I think we had eight away from home, so when you look that we have come through that so far with five wins and one defeat I think we would have taken that, no questions asked,” he said.
“We just have to continue in the same vein at Oldham. There wasn’t a great deal wrong with the performance, just that we conceded a poor goal, which is obviously something we’ll go over.
“We couldn’t make a breakthrough but I think the number of chances we created was great, more than Southend.”
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Signs of fatigue showed in Saturday’s defeat at Scunthorpe United but with a full week to prepare for Oldham Athletic, the Whites boss reckons his side will move on quickly to resume their promotion chase.
Fleetwood go to Peterborough and Bradford host Oxford United on Good Friday, meaning Parkinson will know exactly what he has to do at Boundary Park.
And with extra time to prepare his players, he does not anticipate any lasting reaction from the minor setback at Glanford Park.
“I think it’s important we get a chance to recharge the batteries,” he told The Bolton News. “You lose a game and naturally you are lower than when you win, and we’d been on a high after the Southend result.
“But I don’t need to pick the players up, probably because it turned out the points gap was the same to Fleetwood, only with a game less to play.
“We just need to keep doing what we are doing, concentrate on our recovery and plan for the Oldham game.”
Parkinson inherited a team last summer which had failed to win an away game in more than a year but this season is second only to Sheffield United on the road.
The Whites have taken 37 points away from the Macron Stadium, including 11 wins, and though defeat at Scunthorpe meant they were unable to equal a club record sixth win on the spin, the manager still believes his side are in an enviable position.
“When we had 12 games left I think we had eight away from home, so when you look that we have come through that so far with five wins and one defeat I think we would have taken that, no questions asked,” he said.
“We just have to continue in the same vein at Oldham. There wasn’t a great deal wrong with the performance, just that we conceded a poor goal, which is obviously something we’ll go over.
“We couldn’t make a breakthrough but I think the number of chances we created was great, more than Southend.”
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