Bolton Wanderers returned to winning ways in style with a 3-0 win on the road against a Gillingham side fighting to stay in League One.
Wanderers took the lead in the first half thanks to a brilliant strike from Aaron Morley for his first goal as a Bolton player.
The Gills went down to 10 men midway through the second half when Daniel Phillips was shown a second yellow card.
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And Wanderers capitalised with the extra man with goals from Declan John and Jon Dadi Bodvarsson before full-time in a scoreline where Bolton could have won by a much greater margin.
After the game, Wanderers boss Ian Evatt spoke to the press and here's a transcript of his initial reaction to the victory which leaves them seven points from the League One play-offs.
Was that a satisfying afternoon?
“Very. I think we were excellent from start to finish. A slight disappointment is we could have scored a hell of a lot more, but I thought we dominated the game.
"We controlled the ball like I want us to do, maybe the week on the grass and the week’s rest has given us that opportunity to work on things and implement where we want our defenders to get to receiving the ball in possession and how some of our rotations work.
“They implemented it perfectly and the only disappointment is we didn’t score enough goals. Three probably flattered them and that says a lot about our performance.”
Overall you must be really pleased with what you’re seeing and to come to Gillingham as it looked tricky before kick-off?
“Absolutely because they’ve been doing really well and Neil (Harris) has got them really well organised and they’ve got some excellent results since he’s took over.
"This is a really difficult place to come and I said in the week this has kind of been our Kryptonite coming to places like this where you’re going to have to scrap and fight and do the ugly side well and we haven’t done that well enough this season, but today we did.
“It’s been an emotional week for us. A huge rollercoaster of emotions the last couple of weeks really as we’ve had three of our players having their second child which is great, but then we’ve got the stuff going on in the Ukraine which is scary and then Gethin and his mum.
“Gethin and his family are a huge part of this football club and this is a band of brothers and when one of us is upset and hurting, we all are and we’ve all built relationships with that family because of what we did earlier on in the season.
"We feel for them and I asked the players today ‘there’s nothing that can ever change Gethin’s mood or anything like that for his family but the one thing that we can do today is put a smile on his face because I’m sure he’ll be looking at our result’ - hopefully that’s done that for him. We’re all here for him and we’re all supporting him as best we can.”
Do you feel sometimes that you’re on a rollercoaster at Bolton, as it’s not long since you had seven minutes of madness at Burton, then you lose at MK Dons and you produce a win today - some of your attacking play was first class?
“I think that’s as good a football as you’ll see at many levels really. I think the way we moved the ball on a difficult surface and how we found space, how we trusted each other with the ball was excellent.
“I thought our counterpress was good and when we gave it away, we hunted quickly and got it back. The only slight danger really was set plays and long throws but I thought we dealt with them really well.
"This team is a work in progress. This is a new team. We had seven new recruits in January and we haven’t had time on the grass yet, but I think that was the first signs of really having a good week and working on in possession detail. I thought our detail was fantastic today.”
