Bolton Wanderers vs Barrow

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FROM THE MANAGER
IAN EVATT
The Wanderer | 3
AFTER A PLEASING START TO OUR LEAGUE ONE
CAMPAIGN ON SATURDAY, IT’S A CHANGE OF FOCUS
TONIGHT FOR THE FIRST ROUND OF THE CARABAO CUP.
It goes without saying the objective remains the
same, though, and that’s to try and win and go
through to the next stage.
Every competition we enter we want to progress as
far as we can.
Our success in the Papa Johns Trophy last season
showed the joy a cup run can bring. The Carabao
Cup is a different kind of challenge but we will
do our best to progress and stay in it as long as
possible.
Playing here against Aston Villa in the League
Cup last season was a great experience for the
everyone at the club. If we can bring back the
mid-week nights against Premier League teams it
would be great for our fan-base.
But we’re not getting ahead of ourselves. We
understand that Barrow are going to present a
really difficult challenge this evening. They also
won at the weekend and will have hopes of their
own of going through so we know we will have
to have the right energy and attitude to build on
Saturday’s performance and hopefully get the job
done.
Our 3-0 win over Lincoln was a good start. It
wasn’t spectacular but you can’t ask for much
more on the opening day of a season.
There’s lots more to come
from us but for large
spells we did
what we
wanted to
do and that’s
how we judge
ourselves,
based around
the impact on the
opposition.
We were also helped by a superb crowd of over
20,000, which was a fantastic figure to see on day
one and we thank you for your support.
On that note, I’d like to welcome you all again this
evening, as well as the staff, officials, players and
visiting fans from Barrow.
I have a huge respect for that football club. They
gave me a wonderful opportunity in management,
which I’d like to think I repaid by getting the club
back into the Football League.
I’ll therefore always have huge admiration for
Barrow but it’s now my job to win football matches
for Bolton Wanderers and that, of course, will be
same again tonight.
There is no extra-time in ties in the early rounds
of this competition but added time was a major
topic of conversation around the EFL’s opening
weekend.
We played a total of 14 minutes of added time
and there was more in many other fixtures. I fully
support the aim to increase ‘in-play’ time and
the 78 minutes the ball was in play in our game is
something I’ve not seen before as a manager.
That lengthened game-time is something we are
going to have to get used to and manage from a
players’ fitness and workload point of view.
It will take some adjustment but I believe more
playing time will benefit us as a team and the
way we play and give the fans what they want –
entertainment.
Enjoy the game tonight and thanks, once more, for
your support.
Ian
www.bwfc.co.uk

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FOR TONIGHT’S
VISITORS, A 50-YEAR
WAIT TO COMPETE
IN THE LEAGUE CUP
AGAIN WAS ENDED
ON THEIR RETURN
TO THE EFL IN 2020,
WRITES ROB McNEE.
After winning promotion under Ian Evatt before
his switch to Wanderers, a lucrative away tie
against Derby County in Barrow’s first game
in an EFL competition since dropping out of
the League in 1972 had all the hallmarks of a
‘proper cup tie’.
And on a dramatic night, it was very close to
a famous Barrow win at Pride Park as a close
encounter finished goalless before the Rams edged
it 3-2 on penalties.
The following season produced an opportunity for
a real giant-killing when Barrow were pulled out of
the hat to host Premier League side Aston Villa but
unfortunately it wasn’t to be in front of a full house
as Villa’s top-division pedigree shone through as
they ran out 6-0 winners.
Penalties were to follow Barrow around in the
Carabao Cup, though, and last season they
enjoyed mixed fortunes. After winning a shootout
at Blackpool in round one, the Bluebirds then
bowed out to Lincoln City via spot-kicks in the
second round.
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The Wanderer | 7
In terms of the league, Barrow couldn’t have got
off to a better start this time around. A trip to
Tranmere was their fate on the opening day in
League Two and Pete Wild’s men passed the test
with flying colours, winning 2-1 at Prenton Park.
Kian Spence’s wonder strike was the difference
between the two sides.
It’s been a summer of ins and outs at Barrow. Ten
departures and 11 in-comings ensured a busy offseason
for Pete Wild and his staff.
The Non-League market is one which Barrow have
found success in before and they didn’t hesitate to
dip into it again this summer. Emile Acquah, Sean
Etaluku, Spence and Junior Tiensia all joined from
Maidenhead, Mossley, Halifax and Solihull Moors
respectively.
To accompany those recruits, well recognised
EFL names such as Jamie Proctor, David Worrell,
Courtney Duffus and Dean Campbell were added
to the ranks to bring a further level of know-how to
Barrow’s squad.
Owen Bray and Mazeed Ogungbo were also
brought in from Leeds United U21s and Arsenal
U21s, adding Premier League-grown talent into the
mix for the manager, which he will be hoping to
nurture into hardened EFL professionals.
On the manager front, Pete Wild has already made
his impression on the lower leagues at the age of
39.
As an Oldham fan, Wild got the dream opportunity
to manage the Latics after a long stint working in
other roles at the club and even guided Oldham to
a famous FA Cup win away at Premier League side
Fulham.
It was a three-year spell at Halifax where Wild was
able to develop and implement his ideas. In his
third season he guided the Shaymen to a fourthplace
finish in the National League.
A return to the EFL was well earned and Barrow
swooped in make him their new gaffer in May
2022. Barrow finished in a highly-respectable ninth
place in Sky Bet League Two last campaign as their
play-off bid came up just short over the run-in.
AROUND THE
GROUNDS
TUESDAY 8 AUGUST 2023
FIRST ROUND SOUTH
Newport County 19:30 Charlton Athletic
Peterborough United 19:30 Swindon Town
Swansea City 19:30 Northampton Town
Cheltenham Town 19:45 Birmingham City
Exeter City 19:45 Crawley Town
Forest Green Rovers 19:45 Portsmouth
Gillingham 19:45 Southampton
Millwall 19:45 Reading
Milton Keynes Dons 19:45 Wycombe Wanderers
Plymouth Argyle 19:45 Leyton Orient
Stevenage 19:45 Watford
Sutton United 19:45 Cambridge United
TUESDAY 8 AUGUST 2023
FIRST ROUND NORTH
Huddersfield Town 19:00 Middlesbrough
Mansfield Town 19:30 Grimsby Town
Accrington Stanley 19:45 Bradford City
Barnsley 19:45 Tranmere Rovers
Blackburn Rovers 19:45 Walsall
Bolton Wanderers 19:45 Barrow
Derby County 19:45 Blackpool
Harrogate Town 19:45 Carlisle United
Hull City 19:45 Doncaster Rovers
Notts County 19:45 Lincoln City
Port Vale 19:45 Fleetwood Town
Preston North End 19:45 Salford City
Rotherham United 19:45 Morecambe
Sheffield Wednesday 19:45 Stockport County
Stoke City 19:45 West Bromwich Albion
Sunderland 19:45 Crewe Alexandra
Wrexham 20:00 Wigan Athletic
WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2023
FIRST ROUND SOUTH
AFC Wimbledon 19:45 Coventry City
Bristol City 19:45 Oxford United
Cardiff City 19:45 Colchester United
Ipswich Town 19:45 Bristol Rovers
WEDNESDAY 9 AUGUST 2023
FIRST ROUND NORTH
Leeds United 19:45 Shrewsbury Town
Burton Albion 20:00 Leicester City

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MATCH ACTION
WANDERERS 3
(Iredale 4, Adeboyejo 59, O’Connor OG 74)
LINCOLN CITY 0
SATURDAY 29 JULY 2023 FRIENDLY | ATTENDANCE: 4,90000
WANDERERS MADE THE PERFECT START TO
THEIR LEAGUE ONE CAMPAIGN WITH THEIR
BIGGEST OPENING-DAY WIN FOR 12 YEARS.
In front of a fantastic crowd of just over
20,000, the Whites took less than four minutes
to open the scoring and didn’t look back.
Jack Iredale headed Ian Evatt’s men in front from
an Aaron Morley corner as the defender marked
his return from injury with his first goal for the club.
Iredale – out of competitive action since January
– glanced the perfect header into the far corner to
set the ball rolling.
Wanderers played some superb flowing football
and were finally rewarded again when Victor
Adeboyejo also headed in from a corner to make it
2-0 after an hour.
Goalkeeper Nathan Baxter was rarely tested on
his Wanderers’ debut with former Whites’ loanee
Lukas Jensen barely getting a breather at the other
end.
The big Dane did his best to keep City in the
contest but was beaten again when visiting skipper
Paudie O’Connor slid a Kyle Dempsey cross into
his own goal to complete a comfortable win for the
fast-starting Whites.
Ian Evatt: “I thought some of our general play was
excellent. I felt we dominated and I did feel like
we had another gear to find if we needed to. I’m
genuinely pleased and it’s an important start to get
off the mark.”
Wanderers: Baxter; Jones, Almeida Santos, Iredale; Sheehan (Thomason 73); Dacres-Cogley,
Morley (Maghoma 77), Dempsey (Mendes Gomes 83), Williams; Charles (Jerome 83),
Adeboyejo (Nlundulu 77). Substitutes: Forrester, Ashworth.
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olton wanderers
MANAGER IAN EVATT
1 NATHAN BAXTER n
2 GETHIN JONES n
3 JACK IREDALE n
4 GEORGE THOMASON n
5 RICARDO ALMEIDA SANTOS [C] n
6 GEORGE JOHNSTON n
7 CARLOS MENDES GOMES n
8 JOSH SHEEHAN n
9 JÓN DAÐI BÖÐVARSSON n
10 DION CHARLES n
11 DAN NLUNDULU n
12 JOSH DACRES-COGLEY n
13 JOEL COLEMAN n
14 VICTOR ADEBOYEJO n
15 WILL FORRESTER n
16 AARON MORLEY n
18 EOIN TOAL n
19 PARIS MAGHOMA n
22 KYLE DEMPSEY n
25 DECLAN JOHN n
26 ZAC ASHWORTH n
27 RANDELL WILLIAMS n
29 KIERAN SADLIER n
35 CAMERON JEROME n
barrow AFC
MANAGER PETE WILD
1 PAUL FARMAN n
3 MAZEED OGUNGBO n
4 DEAN CAMPBELL n
5 GEORGE RAY n
6 NIAL CANAVAN [C] n
7 DAVID WORRALL n
8 KIAN SPENCE n
9 JAMIE PROCTOR n
10 GED GARNER n
11 ELLIOT NEWBY n
12 JOSH LILLIS n
13 TOM WHITE n
14 COURTNEY DUFFUS n
15 ROBBIE GOTTS n
16 SAM FOLEY n
20 EMILE ACQUAH n
21 TYRELL WARREN n
24 RORY FEELY n
29 JUNIOR TIENSIA n
34 BEN WHITFIELD n
35 OWEN BRAY n
36 MALAKAI REEVE n
37 SEAN ETALUKU n
MATCH OFFICIALS
REFEREE: ANTHONY BACKHOUSE
ASSISTANT REFEREE 1: ALEX JAMES ASSISTANT REFEREE 2: RICHARD WILD
FOURTH OFFICIAL: MARK DWYER
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THIS SEASON
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