The Wigan Athletic quality Bolton Wanderers must adopt in eventual aim for League One promotion

Bolton Wanderers boss Ian Evatt believes his side must adopt the competitive edge to win duels that Wigan Athletic have 'in abundance' to take themselves to the next level.

Wanderers came from behind to collect a share of the spoils against the Latics in the lunchtime kick-off at the DW Stadium yesterday.

James McClean put the Latics in front early in the first half as his cross found its way all the way through to give the hosts an early lead.

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Leam Richardson's side dominated much of the first half but a big moment came before half-time when referee Samuel Barrott refrained from showing McClean a second yellow card following a foul on Dapo Afolayan, for whom he had fouled for his opening booking earlier in the game.

Wanderers were the better team after the break and got a deserved equaliser when Bodvarsson rose to nod home Will Aimson's cross and give Wanderers a share of the spoils.

Evatt believes Richardson's outfit are very competitive and win their duels and second balls in the middle of the park, something his team did not deal with well enough in first half of the encounter.

And the Bolton boss believes if they can add that aspect of the Latics to their own game, they will be an exciting team moving forwards.

He said: “We win or we learn and I think we’ve learnt today some positives and some negatives and there’s things that we need to work on.

"The holy grail so to speak is to have that competitive edge that I think they’ve got in abundance, by the way, I think that’s what they are. I think they’re very strong, very competitive, win duels and if we can add that to our football we’re going to be a really