\n Xavier Simons and Max Conway were denied by the woodwork either side of half time, while Corey Addai made some big saves.\n<\/p>\n
\n Both of the hosts\u2019 goals were sucker punches at the end of the respective halves as the Whites left Edgeley Park empty-handed.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDisappointing, obviously, to lose the game,\u201d Schumacher said after the final whistle. \u201cI thought it was a game that we probably didn’t deserve to lose.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI felt we created a lot of opportunities again, went to some brilliant areas and didn’t make the most of them.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe two moments that mattered, they’ve been more clinical than we have again.\u00a0So disappointing to lose it, but enough positivity in there that against a really good team,\u00a0we created well enough to win the game.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The head coach continued: \u201cI thought the performance was OK.\u00a0We know we were against a good side who pass and move the ball really well.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI felt as though we were in control of all those situations.\u00a0We didn’t feel under pressure from many moments and got into some really good areas from our attacking point of view.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhat we spoke about in the week, we haven\u2019t managed to take them.\u00a0The keeper has made a couple of good saves, granted, but we’ve also missed the target from areas where we can\u2019t miss the target. That’s the most disappointing thing – we don’t do enough with our good play.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Teddy Sharman-Lowe, Xavier Simons, Amario Cozier-Duberry and Mason Burstow were handed their debuts and Max Conway got the nod following his impressive loan spell at Crewe Alexandra last season.\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite the result, Schumacher felt there were some bright signs from the new additions to his squad.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt’s hard to say that when you’ve lost but, again, there is positivity in the actual way we played,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe new lads are all settled in and trying hard, and it feels like they have been here a while so that is OK.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut as I said, we have got to do better because in these big games, in tight games, you have got to be clinical.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Conway had a penalty shout turned down by referee Elliot Bell in the first half after a driving run into the box.\n<\/p>\n
\n There was also a controversial free kick awarded after Bolton thought they had won back possession high up the pitch and played in Carlos Mendes Gomes on the left.\n<\/p>\n
\n When asked about the decisions, Schumacher replied: \u201cFrom the first minute really, there was a real soft foul\u00a0when we nicked the ball off Ollie Norwood.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cA few minutes later, Mason Burstow got pulled back\u00a0and I said to the fourth official, \u2018If he is going to give soft ones, that\u2019s the same\u2019.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI just felt we didn’t get the rub of the green from that moment. But I don’t like moaning about refs, it\u2019s about what we’re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xavier Simons and Max Conway were denied by the woodwork either side of half time, while Corey Addai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114965678903265567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}