{"id":516348,"date":"2026-04-06T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:28:09","slug":"bolton-wanderers-2-2-stockport-county-manager-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516348\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Stockport County: Manager reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Brighton loanee made his comeback in the 2-2 draw against Stockport County, this first outing since injuring his knee ligaments in January.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cozier-Duberry had a late shot blocked as Bolton threw everything forward in search of a winner, with Chris Forino also hitting the bar with a stoppage time header.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Schumacher explained the decision to bring his star winger back into the squad ahead of next weekend\u2019s trip to Cardiff City was made in an effort to lift a flagging squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe has been working his way back to fitness but we decided yesterday to get him on the bench and give everybody a lift,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe had George Johnston unavailable because of illness and we obviously know about the two central midfield players (Ethan Erhahon and Xavier Simons) who are missing at the moment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe were a bit light in the squad so we thought: \u2018Right, there\u2019s a spot on the bench and hopefully it&#8217;ll give the crowd a bit of a lift too,\u00a0which it certainly did.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt was lovely to have him back on,\u00a0it&#8217;s going to take him a bit of time to get up to his full rhythm,\u00a0but when he does, we all know how good of a player he can be.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wanderers went ahead against Stockport through Johnny Kenny but conceded an equaliser in stoppage time with Adama Sidibeh netting from close range.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tayo Edun pounced on a heavily deflected shot from Odin Bailey to give County the lead at the start of the season half but when Ben Osbourn\u2019s own goal brought Bolton level again, they pushed hard to find a win that could have put them to within six points of next week\u2019s opponents Cardiff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt was a good game, it was a close game,\u201d Schumacher said. \u201cBoth teams tried to win it, which was good,\u00a0and in the end I think probably a point is, on reflection, probably a fair result.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBboth teams had spells where they were on top. I felt we started the game brightly, they came into it,\u00a0in the middle period of the first half we got ourselves in front,\u00a0maybe against the run of play.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFrom that moment we needed to get in at half time and readjust but to lose a goal late on was disappointing, especially such a soft one. Direct goal kick,\u00a0and we didn&#8217;t deal with that well enough, didn&#8217;t stop the cross.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhen they scored the second goal early into the second half,\u00a0it would have been easy for our lads&#8217; heads to drop,\u00a0but they never, they kept going.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe responded well, the changes did help,\u00a0I thought Thierry (Gale) was bright when he came on,\u00a0Ruben (Rodrigues), Mason (Burstow) and Amario (Cozier-Duberry), getting him on the pitch,\u00a0giving the crowd a whole lift.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAnd in the end,\u00a0I thought we deserved an equaliser, and potentially at the end,\u00a0maybe could have won it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI thought it was a good game,\u00a0I just look back at all the stats and all the data,\u00a0and it was really close,\u00a0and I don&#8217;t think Dave would probably say the same,\u00a0that both teams could have won it,\u00a0both teams could have lost it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brighton loanee made his comeback in the 2-2 draw against Stockport County, this first outing since injuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-516348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516348","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=516348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}