BBM upbeat for derby at Bolton
THEY have already crossed swords in the EFL Trophy, but Brian Barry-Murphy meets his mentor today with League One points at stake.
Former Dale boss Keith Hill is now in charge of Bolton Wanderers with David Flitcroft as his number two, the duo having made their name at Spotland a decade ago.
Barry-Murphy is now in charge at the Dale and will not be reading too much into the clash earlier this month when his side entertained Hill’s men and earned a penalty shootout victory.
Hill and Flitcroft have had a few weeks to instill their brand of football into the Bolton squad and BBM expects a different the season and the players focused on our own team chances we created we about performances, they proposition when his side love it. Irrespective of and the way we want to more or less took. are still insanely competitive visit the Macron Stadium what the supporters say play. “We had good control in and they want to win this afternoon. about the opposition fans, “We’re very confident, certain spells of the game games so there comes a
However, having beaten it’s part of what makes going to a stadium like the unlike the game at stage where they are like Accrington Stanley 2-1 football in the north west Macron, that we can give Wimbledon where we ‘Well that’s great Brian, last week, BBM insists his so unique. them problems of their created loads of chances but we want to win!’ players will be looking forward “Those derby occasions own and whather it will be and didn’t take them Accrington “At Wimbledon, even to the clash in confident were brilliant and we have good enough or not, we’ll was the opposite, with the injuries that we frame of mind. lost Bury, so having give everything just as we we were pretty clinical. had, I thought that we
And with troubled Bury Accrington and Bolton to did against Accrington. should have won the – traditionally Dale’s fiercest come is brilliant for the The effort from the players “It was a different type game and it was hard on rivals – having fallen by supporters and everyone last weekend was incredible of performance and one the players. the wayside, BBM said at the club. and we’ll aim to reproduce that we produced towards “So the fact that we got games against the likes of “I’d imagine Bolton are that on Saturday.” the end of last season the win against Accrington Stanley and Bolton had looking more like a Keith BBM will be looking for when it bore great fruits was great for morale taken on greater significance Hill/David Flitcroft side his side to build momentum for us and we went on to and they deserved to as derbies. now. after the victory build on those performances. enjoy it.
“It’s certainly a derby in “They have had to get against Accrington last We’ll be looking “There was no shame in my view – I would say it’s players together very, very time out and strike the to build on the Accrington enjoying a derby victory definitely a derby for us,” quickly and they are obviously right balance between performance with more over a John Coleman side, he said. progressing in terms clinical finishing and control control and put a it’s a result we treasured
“The demise of Bury has of how they want their of possession. sequence of results and will look to build on had a huge impact in this team to play, so it will be a “We didn’t create loads together. this weekend against one area because it takes away very difficult game. But of chances against “No matter how much I of the biggest clubs in the one of the best derbies of we’ll be very much Accrington but the tell the players it’s all division.”
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