Only a couple of months of the season remain with the regular League One campaign set to come to a conclusion at the end of April.
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Bolton Wanderers take on Sunderland this weekend aiming to make it three wins in succession in League One.
In a clash that has graced the Premier League in years gone by, Wanderers host the Black Cats.
It is a chance for Wanderers to make it three wins on the spin in the third tier of English football and an opportunity to avenge the 1-0 loss on the road at the Stadium of Light in September.
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And in terms of team selection, whether to hand Jon Dadi Bodvarsson his first start for Bolton is a big decision facing Ian Evatt, not only with the options he has at his disposal in the final third, but also the various formations Wanderers can now line up as.
He said: "I’ve got two parrots on my shoulder. One is telling me to look after him and keep him fit and the other is saying, ‘play him’. But Jon is an experienced player - he understands his own body.
"He has lacked a lot of football but what you saw in that 25 minutes against Shrewsbury is what he’ll give us, and he looked razor sharp in training today. Amadou (Bakayoko) has trained really well this week, Dapo (Afolayan) as well. All of a sudden, we’ve got some serious attacking options that are all going to be vying for two places at the moment.
"We’ve got loads of different strings to our bow now. We can play 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, 3-5-2, 3-4-3. And with the players that are going to come in the building, that will give us even more flexibility. The players we have signed are all flexible really.
"There are lots of players in this squad now who can play in different positions and we can change before or during a game. If you guys (journalists) are struggling to pick
Only a couple of months of the season remain with the regular League One campaign set to come to a conclusion at the end of April.
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