Wanderers<\/a> boss. \u201cNo injuries as well, which is excellent.\u00a0We got loads of minutes into players who needed it.\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cSome debuts as well, which is brilliant.\u00a0And, as you say, some goals and confidence\u00a0and another win on the board.\u00a0So, loads of positives to take from the night.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTwo negatives because they shouldn’t have scored.\u00a0That’s it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Unless Bolton had lost by a heavy margin, their place as group winners was not under threat and now means they will have a home draw in the round of 32.\n<\/p>\n
\n Schumacher has talked up the value of the competition for keeping his whole squad bubbling under and having emerged from the group with a 100 per cent record he feels confident going into the knockout stages.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have taken the competition seriously\u00a0because of the strength and depth in the squad that we’ve got,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cIt gives us a chance to play strong teams in it.\u00a0And it also gives the opportunity for the players\u00a0then to show that they’re ready to play in the league fixtures.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnd we’ve chopped and changed.\u00a0And, as I say, the performances have been really good\u00a0and the results have been what we needed.\u00a0So, yeah, it’s pleasing to top the group.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt’s pleasing to win all three games.\u00a0And now we look forward to whoever we get in the next round in this competition.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Wanderers\u2019 weekend game at Stevenage has been called off for international call-ups but Schumacher isn\u2019t too concerned that momentum will be affected by the break.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou can’t think like that,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the game’s off, the game’s off.\u00a0So, we have to be prepared for the next one, which is Bradford.\u00a0We’ll use this weekend to the best of our advantage if we can.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe give the players a couple of days off to recharge and rest up\u00a0and get ready to go again.\u00a0And when we come up against Bradford, we’re going into a game full of confidence and belief.\u00a0And, obviously, against a team who are above us in the league at the moment.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo, it’ll be a huge game and I can’t wait for it.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Schumacher is also encouraged by the attitude of his players, who have coped with rotation in the cup competitions and produced results, creating a genuine sense of competition within the squad.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI’ve got a sense of it all along,\u201d he said. \u201cThere’s a strong squad at the moment and there’s real competition for places.\u00a0And whoever we pick, at the moment, we’re seeing not too much of a drop-off in performance.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe changed, whatever, seven changes for the FA Cup tie,\u00a0a few more changes for the next league game and both performances were excellent.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnd then, tonight, it’s the same.\u00a0Eleven changes for tonight and we’ve done the business to get the result that we wanted.\u00a0So, it’s a great problem to have and long may that continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bolton boss was delighted that after making 11 changes to his starting line up and bringing four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-257898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}