The Trotters are familiar with the Railwaymen, having played them in pre-season and also in the EFL Trophy earlier this campaign.
Before the match, Wanderers head coach Ian Evatt spoke to the press and here's the highlights of what he had to say. Is the FA Cup a welcome distraction?“There’s no welcome distractions as this point in time, we want opportunities to win football matches because we haven’t won enough yet."It’s going to be a tough game but we know a lot about each other, we’ve played Crewe twice already this season and we’ve lost both games.
However the last game, I thought especially in the second half we deserved to win."We did our usual tactic of shooting ourselves in the foot but it’s another opportunity to play a game of.
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