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Wanderers will give Jason Lowe and Daryl Murphy every chance to prove their fitness before naming their squad for Burton tonight.
Skipper Lowe was taken off in the weekend’s draw at Wimbledon with a hamstring injury and top-scorer Murphy followed suit after reporting an Achilles problem.
Keith Hill said yesterday that he was “certain” that goalkeeper Remi Mathews would shake-off the ankle problem that threatened his participation but said medical staff would make their recommendations at lunchtime before this evening’s game at the Pirelli Stadium.
Jack Hobbs (hamstring), Chris O’Grady (Achilles), Kean Bryan (knee) out of the reckoning alongside long-term casualties Will Buckley and Liam Edwards.
Hill hopes to marry up the defensive improvement which has helped Wanderers keep successive clean sheets with better decision-making in attack.
Goals have dried up for Wanderers of late, with Bryan the only player to have hit the back of the net in the last five games. And that has left Hill looking for inspiration from his front line.
“I am really pleased with the two clean sheets and the players are too, it gives them some confidence in themselves, some belief – and that’s massive,” he said.
“I want to build, no question about it, but we can’t take anything for granted because of the situation and the fact we haven’t got that continuity – training methods, players available, team selection, positive results. Is it a platform to go on? If we can keep that stability of the clean sheets and then also make better attacking decisions, then yes, 100 per cent.
“I think the team itself is getting confidence from the clean sheets but the next stage now is to get players into the box, having more options to score goals, then we can really build.
“It’s just that little bit of quality that we are searching for in the opposition areas of the pitch.
“It doesn’t matter what league you are in, everything a football player does on the pitch comes down to decision making.
“Good individual decision making will allow a player to play as high as he possibly can, it’s everything in a nutshell. It’s easy to suggest you can translate it from a training ground to a matchday but in reality it is totally different playing against different opposition than the team-mates around you.”
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Skipper Lowe was taken off in the weekend’s draw at Wimbledon with a hamstring injury and top-scorer Murphy followed suit after reporting an Achilles problem.
Keith Hill said yesterday that he was “certain” that goalkeeper Remi Mathews would shake-off the ankle problem that threatened his participation but said medical staff would make their recommendations at lunchtime before this evening’s game at the Pirelli Stadium.
Jack Hobbs (hamstring), Chris O’Grady (Achilles), Kean Bryan (knee) out of the reckoning alongside long-term casualties Will Buckley and Liam Edwards.
Hill hopes to marry up the defensive improvement which has helped Wanderers keep successive clean sheets with better decision-making in attack.
Goals have dried up for Wanderers of late, with Bryan the only player to have hit the back of the net in the last five games. And that has left Hill looking for inspiration from his front line.
“I am really pleased with the two clean sheets and the players are too, it gives them some confidence in themselves, some belief – and that’s massive,” he said.
“I want to build, no question about it, but we can’t take anything for granted because of the situation and the fact we haven’t got that continuity – training methods, players available, team selection, positive results. Is it a platform to go on? If we can keep that stability of the clean sheets and then also make better attacking decisions, then yes, 100 per cent.
“I think the team itself is getting confidence from the clean sheets but the next stage now is to get players into the box, having more options to score goals, then we can really build.
“It’s just that little bit of quality that we are searching for in the opposition areas of the pitch.
“It doesn’t matter what league you are in, everything a football player does on the pitch comes down to decision making.
“Good individual decision making will allow a player to play as high as he possibly can, it’s everything in a nutshell. It’s easy to suggest you can translate it from a training ground to a matchday but in reality it is totally different playing against different opposition than the team-mates around you.”
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