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Play-off nerves may be evident in the terraces over the next few games at Wanderers but Randell Williams insists the dressing room remains an oasis of calm.
With four games remaining, the margin for error in the race for a top six spot is small. On paper, it looks to be a straight fight between Bolton, Peterborough United, Derby County and Wycombe for two places.
Williams says there is little difference in the mood of the squad between the one he entered into in January and the one that will prepare for Shrewsbury’s visit tomorrow.
“The dressing room has stayed the same, there’s competition and everyone wants to play, but we’re great friends and there isn’t really that nervousness. I think we’ll be confident,” he told The Bolton News.
“It isn’t that complicated for us. We have to go out there and win games, and it isn’t always possible as proved the case on Tuesday at Burton. But I think if we play and fight the way we did there, I think we will get the luck we didn’t that night.”
Williams accepts, however, that playing the next three games at the UniBol will be a distinct advantage. Home form has been solid this term and he sees no reason why that will not continue.
“Playing at home is always a positive, fans will help lift us,” he said. “We’re coming off some good results away from home and I’d back us at home to win all three of them, to be honest.
“They have been behind us all season, I’m sure that will be the case in the last three, we just have to go out there and get a result.”
Williams believes Wanderers were unlucky not to have taken more from Burton in midweek – and though sharper finishing will be needed to put Shrewsbury away, he believes a calm approach is key to getting three points this time around.
“The gaffer has his way of playing and we as players have to adapt, implicate our own abilities in that system,” he said. “If teams want to camp in then sometimes we might have to be patient in order to break them down.
“If they want to be physical and direct we just have to keep fighting alongside each other.
“Burton was one of those games, it was end to end. We had the chances, didn’t put them away, but on another day we score three or four.”
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