{"id":420616,"date":"2026-02-11T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:45:08","slug":"bolton-wanderers-boss-john-mcatee-making-right-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420616\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Wanderers boss: John McAtee making &#8216;right decisions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Steven Schumacher believes the 26-year-old\u2019s form has benefited after starting the last four games for the Whites, each of which have resulted in three points.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  McAtee was given an extended run on Schumacher\u2019s arrival as head coach last February but had started just once this season in the league before the 2-1 win against Leyton Orient on January 24.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And the Bolton boss reckons regular game time has brought more out of McAtee, including a fourth goal of the campaign against his former loan club Barnsley last weekend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cMacca is a good player and he\u2019s another one, like Sam Dalby, who is really benefitting from having that run of games,\u201d he told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Bolton News<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe is looking sharper on the ball, and he is making good decisions. And when you feel confident you do start making more of those right choices.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe managed to get through 90 minutes (against Barnsley) and I think I have taken him off in pretty much every other game this season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think he made good decisions pretty much all game with the exception of one that he should have played through for Rob Apter on the right-hand side which would have killed it off but he played the other way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut that\u2019s nit-picking and it\u2019s what I get paid to do.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  McAtee\u2019s last 90-minute shift for Wanderers was on the opening day of the season at Stockport County and he has gone the distance in just 10 of his 79 appearances for the club since signing from Luton Town.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the other end of the pitch, Schumacher has been pleased with Jack Bonham\u2019s form since signing the goalkeeper from Stoke City last month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 32-year-old has not yet finished on the losing side since arriving at the Toughsheet and came up with two vital saves against Barnsley last weekend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cTwo big moments, one early on which if (Barnsley) score then their confidence goes sky high and things might get edgy, and then again late on, his concentration doesn\u2019t switch off,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe hasn\u2019t had a lot of saves to make in his time here so far but we have been really pleased with him because he has done everything that we have asked him to go. It\u2019s been a good start for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Schumacher believes the 26-year-old\u2019s form has benefited after starting the last four games for the Whites, each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-420616","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\/420616","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=420616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}