Wycombe vs Bolton preview
Thursday 2 April 2020 11:13, UK
David Wheeler and Fred Onyedinma are among the summer signings in line to feature for Wycombe when they host Bolton in their Sky Bet League One campaign-opener.
Tuesday saw midfielder Wheeler and forward Onyedinma - who has previously had two loan spells at the club - join from QPR and Millwall respectively.
Fellow new recruits Alex Pattison, Paul Smyth, Jack Grimmer, Jacob Gardiner-Smith, Giles Phillips and Jamie Mascoll are all also available. Sido Jombati (ankle) and Curtis Thompson (shoulder) will not be involved.
Bolton, who start the season on minus 12 points after going into administration, have only a handful of senior players to call upon. They announced in June that they had just 14 players contracted to the club as professionals or third year scholars and one of those has since departed, with Luca Connell joining Celtic.
The Trotters have been awaiting completion of a takeover by the Football Ventures consortium. It was only announced on Monday that this fixture would go ahead as scheduled, with the EFL having declared itself satisfied about Bolton's financial position.
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This will be the first ever meeting between Wycombe Wanderers and Bolton Wanderers in any competition.
Wycombe Wanderers will become the 108th different opponent to face Bolton in a league encounter. Indeed, the Trotters lost their last such match when facing a side for the very first time, falling to a 0-1 defeat at home to Burton in December 2017.
Wycombe have only lost one of their last 13 matches when kicking off their Football League campaign at Adams Park (P13 W5 D7 L1), a 0-1 defeat to Accrington Stanley back in August 2007.
Bolton, who won away at West Brom on the opening day last season, are looking to record back-to-back victories in season openers for the first time since won away at Cardiff 1989-90 and Shrewsbury in 1990-91 when they were in the third tier.
Only one of Bolton manager Phil Parkinson's previous 13 season opening matches has ended in a draw (2-2 v Bristol City in August 2013), seeing his sides win six and lose six of the other 12 such games.
