Bolton Wanderers are currently in the midst of an injury crisis with several recognised first team players out of action injured.
Ian Evatt currently has Josh Sheehan, MJ Williams, Gethin Jones, Harry Brockbank, Alex Baptiste, Amadou Bakayoko and Andrew Tutte out of action at present.
The Bolton boss admits that striker Eoin Doyle has a 'very good chance' of playing a part this evening against Doncaster Rovers after recovering from a calf injury.
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And Evatt admits that he is not blessed with many options at present and that those first team squad players selected must take the opportunites granted to them in light of the current injury's struggles.
Evatt said: "The ones we’ve got left – it’s not like we’re blessed with choice and options. These players are part of a squad and they are part of a football team that wants to win and needs to win, so they have to take that on board. Given the opportunity that some of them have been waiting for, they have to take it.
"It’s just our turn and our time really (with injuries). We have to take our medicine and just keep composed, keep our dignity, keep working very hard and try to keep the ones we’ve got fit in one piece.
"Our medical team, who are excellent, will have to work very hard trying to get these players back and soon and physically possible. But for now, as a group we just have to really come together. As a club, we have to come together. The players need the support and we have to find a way to get results and win football matches.
"January is still I think seven, eight league games away so we’ve got to find a way until then. But if you’d have asked me last season, ‘can we have a period of adversity mid-table in League One’, I’d have snapped your hand off.
"If that’s what adversity looks like now for this football club after what we’ve been through in the last two years, we’re not doing so bad.
"As I said, we’ve just got to find a way, batten down the hatches and keep the ones we’ve got in one piece as best we can, support them as best we can and find a way to get results."
With the injuries at present, Joel Dixon is poised to start as goalkeeper with a back four of Lloyd Isgrove, Ricardo Santos, Will Aimson and Declan John in front of him.
Kieran Lee and George Thomason are the only current fit recognised first choice central midfielders at present, and George Johnston could line up in front of the back four in the absence of Williams.
Upfront, Doyle could return through the middle with Elias Kachunga on the right and Dapo Afolayan on the left flank.
Bolton Wanderers predicted team vs Doncaster Rovers: Dixon; Isgrove, Santos, Aimson, John; Johnston, Thomason, Lee; Kachunga, Doyle, Afolayan.
