Steven Schumacher believes Bolton still have the ability to be in the mix and challenge for the play-offs due to their form and the way they play the game after his Plymouth Argyle side's victory over Wanderers.
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George Johnston feels that Bolton Wanderers now have something to play for in their season as they aim to try and reach the play-offs as he does not want their campaign to fizzle out.
Wanderers have won seven of their last nine games which has seen them shoot up the third tier of English football in recent weeks.
The Whites sit 10th in the table and seven points from the top six with 13 games of their season left to go.
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Their next clash is tomorrow evening at home to Lincoln City where Wanderers can make it eight wins in 10 matches.
And Johnston believes that Wanderers now have something to play for in their season, but that the squad are taking it one game at a time to see where they end up and are not analysing fixtures ahead of time.
He said: "There is definitely something to play for now. We didn’t want the season to fizzle out in mid-table so there is certainly something to play for and we’ll just take it a game at a time, see where we get to.
“It has given us confidence, going from one game to another in quick succession, especially with the wins we have picked up.
“But it has meant we haven’t had much time on the training pitch so the idea the gaffer wants to implement, not all of the new players have been able to understand them fully.
“In the next week, when we don’t have do many, then we should be able to learn a bit more.
"I think we’ve won against some of the bigger teams and then not picked up a result where we thought we might have so I think you’ve just got to take each game as it comes in this league. You never know what’s going to happen.
"Obviously, I’m aware of what happened last season but
Steven Schumacher believes Bolton still have the ability to be in the mix and challenge for the play-offs due to their form and the way they play the game after his Plymouth Argyle side's victory over Wanderers.
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