Bolton Wanderers vs Shrewsbury Town

EVERY SEASON HAS A PIVOTAL MOMENT AND THE REAL RELEVANCE
MAY NOT BE DETERMINED UNTIL THE FINAL OUTCOME.
But right now, Wanderers’
fightback at Sheffield Wednesday
feels pretty important.
And it certainly was for one player
in particular as Josh Sheehan
showed beyond doubt he’s back in
business.
“It’s what I’d been waiting for really,
to get an opportunity and get an
opportunity and do well,” said
Sheehan, who got the nod to start
at Hillsborough just over a month
ago and hasn’t looked back since.
“You can get an opportunity and
not take it and I felt at Sheffield
Wednesday maybe I did.
“That was the first game I played in
a deeper role than I had in the few
months prior to that. I just felt in
the Sheffield Wednesday game as
a team we clicked and played the
way we wanted to.
“We hadn’t been up to that
standard before that but since then
I feel like as a team – especially
as everybody saw in the final –
we really hit the ground running
and we’ve got to keep doing that
to the end of the season and be
confident and be ourselves and
know what we can do and go and
show it.”
After conceding early to a
Wednesday side that at the time
was on a club record unbeaten
run and flying high at the top of
League One, Wanderers could
have faltered further on the back
of a sticky sequence of one win
and three defeats in five games
wrapped around the semi-final win
at Accrington Stanley that took
them to the final of the Papa Johns
Trophy.
Instead, they rallied and left South
Yorkshire with a deserved point
thanks to Victor Adeboyejo’s
equaliser which kick-started a fivematch
unbeaten league run and an
on-going place in the top six.
Sheehan more than played his part
with a classy midfield display and,
having felt his way back to full form
and fitness after the best part of
a year out of League One action
following a nasty knee injury, it was
a big 90 minutes for the Welshman.
“I don’t know many players in
the world that have come back
straight away and in the first game
back or first training session back
and it’s like you’ve never been
away,” admitted Sheehan, whose
previous contributions – including
a big winner against Port Vale in
February – had come in shorter
bursts.
“It just takes time. You feel fine,
it’s just confidence and belief
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