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Bolton Wanderers will not give up in their pursuit of a top two spot in League One, says boss Steven Schumacher.
Steven Schumacher's Bolton finished eighth in League One last season after he joined the club in January [Shutterstock] Bolton Wanderers manager Steven Schumacher has said his team will not give up on trying to earn an automatic promotion place in League One. Tuesday's goalless draw against Doncaster Rovers means Schumacher's side are now 10 points adrift of second-placed Cardiff City with eight games remaining. Off the back of a 13-game unbeaten run, Bolton's most recent defeat in the league came against Peterborough on 10 January.
Asked by BBC Radio Manchester whether automatic promotion was now out of sight, Schumacher said: "You asked me that the other day and I said we won't give up, so I'm not going to change my opinion now. "It's still eight games to go, 24 points to play for and who knows? "We're one point closer to Cardiff than we were before.
" Bolton have a difficult end-of-season run-in, with matches against fellow top-eight opposition in Stockport, Cardiff, Stevenage, Huddersfield and Bradford to come in their final eight games. Asked whether he was running out of attacking options having failed to score against Doncaster, Schumacher added: "We've scored about 10 goals in the past four games, so no don't think we're running out of options. "We had three strikers on the pitch today.
Mason Burstow's got 11, Johnny Kenny's got one and Sam Dalby's got 12, so we've got goals in the team. "But we just didn't manage to connect with the chances that we had. "