Bolton rightful favourites on Friday evening
Bolton Wanderers host Crewe Alexandra in League One on Friday evening, the Trotters will be hoping to get back to winning ways at The UniBol after a winless run of five games. Ian Evatt’s men have lost four of those outings without scoring but rock bottom Crewe’s visit presents the perfect opportunity to start bridging the eight point gap between themselves and the play-off places. Lofty ambitions for a club who were only promoted from League Two last season but Bolton are certainly one of the biggest in the division that were in the fourth tier through financial mismanagement.
Background
Crewe’s squad has been gutted in the last year or so. The Railwaymen lost Perry Ng and Harry Pickering in January, the former returning for the rest of 2020/21 on loan, with Ryan Wintle, Owen Dale and Charlie Kirk leaving the club this summer.
The whole Crewe ethos is about providing a pathway from the youth system to the first team and that will continue in this relegation battle. But they are at the start of a cycle, the next crop of youngsters and not ready to burst through and be key players. Two of David Artell’s key summer signings had to retire out of the blue which was a crushing blow and then they were without Owen Dale, who eventually left for Blackpool, and Tom Lowery, still at the club, due to contract disputes and players hoping to be moved on.
Bolton will be identifying a handful of targets to bulk out their squad in January but for now they need to make up some ground so they have a play-off push as a selling point come the turn of the year.
Goals?
Overs is a potential option with Crewe improving slowly going forward but not an angle I will be investing in.
- Bolton have scored in six of ten.
- Bolton have conceded in nine of ten.
- Bolton have seen both teams score in five of ten.
- Bolton have seen over 2.5 goals in eight of ten.
- Crewe have scored in seven of ten.
- Crewe have conceded in eight of ten.
- Crewe have seen both teams score in five of ten.
- Crewe have seen over 2.5 goals in eight of ten.
Bolton are strong favourites for a reason and therefore I will be getting them onside enhancing value with the Asian Handicap.
Post bet chat Marcus's Tips:
Bolton stopped the rot with a 2-0 win.