Declan John & Marlon Fossey's key role in Bolton's win vs Gillingham as glimpse into future given

The drifting in to more central areas of Declan John and Marlon Fossey helped pose questions to Gillingham as Bolton Wanderers returned to winning ways in style.

Wanderers took the lead at Priestfield 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.

The wing-backs of John and Fossey played a big part in the encounter, with the former scoring and potentially having another in the second half, while the latter notched two assists.

And against the Kent side, the pair did not stay as wide as they previously have been since the switch to wing-backs, but came in centrally more in a bid to affect play, which worked a treat.

Evatt believes that is something that Wanderers went to work more on in the weeks to come with more time on the training pitch.

He said: “If you noticed today our wing-backs traditionally would have been staying wide because we haven’t had chance to coach, but now there’s that rotation as well where our 10 is drifting wide and our wing-back is taking in central pockets.

"I think in the second half, Dec found himself in the middle of the box a lot and that’s something that we want to work on. We want that fluidity, we want that rotation, because it becomes difficult to play against.

"If you’re predictable and you’re playing straight lines, opposition can