Bolton 3-0 Wycombe Wanderers

Next up we have our first home game of the seaon against Wycombe, who had a great result in their opening fixture against Burton.  3-0 winners which shows they will be no walkover.  Wycombe had the minority of possession (43%) and scored their 3 goals within the opening 30 mins.

They managed an impressive 17 shots on target, 7 (41%) of these being on target and scoring 3 of them!

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We’re going to get dicked.

We’ve also never beaten Wycombe,  played 4 lost 4

They're a decent team who were close to promotion last year and we need to play a lot better than we did at Ipswich going forward.
One of those games where the only thing that matters is our performance because they can only hurt us if we make daft errors - so if we avoid that and get our attacking game up and running we should be in for our first win of the season.

Last year it was our points tally against the better/form teams in the league that let us down and whilst it's a tough to start the season against two of the promotion contenders, these are the games that will define us.

BoltonTillIDie wrote:We’ve also never beaten Wycombe,  played 4 lost 4

We’ve been here before with Bristol City. We just have to wait. Saturday would be a nice start to end the jinx though.

Cant see us beating these to be honest, a draw would be great but i reckon a 2-1 defeat. They look to have a lot of firepower up front and they will be one of the favourites for promotion.

Norpig wrote:Cant see us beating these to be honest, a draw would be great but i reckon a 2-1 defeat. They look to have a lot of firepower up front and they will be one of the favourites for promotion.

We're at home and if we have any pretensions of getting promoted this season, we have to at least win our home matches against the other contenders.

If we win this then we can all dream of auto promotion. 
If we lose then I'm afraid its curtains for this year.

So dramatic

Biggie wrote:If we win this then we can all dream of auto promotion. 
If we lose then I'm afraid its curtains for this year.

Obviously - our entire season depends on this one game.

wanderlust wrote:

Biggie wrote:If we win this then we can all dream of auto promotion. 
If we lose then I'm afraid its curtains for this year.

Obviously - our entire season depends on this one game.

Precisely my point. It's a must win game.

Biggie wrote:
Precisely my point. It's a must win game.

I suspect one or both of us is being sarcastic.

Biggest game in the Evans reign so far. My bedsheets are primed and ready.

Has he learnt the lessons from last season? I very much doubt it.

Bod has to start, he absolutely must.

I see a bore-draw or narrow away victory.

It will always be a disappointment if Bolton don't beat Wycombe at home.This will be the first time I have ever seen Bolton play Wycombe although I once attended a 4th Division play off final at Wembley when Wycombe beat Preston.

Interesting starting 11 but we need to play better than we did at Ipswich to win this especially with the passing and movement up top and Trafford's distribution.
Wycombe are one of the better teams in this division so the game will be a good yardstick.