Chris Evans addressed the assembled media on Thursday morning ahead of the home fixture against Chelsea this coming Saturday.

You can catch the thoughts of the Bolton Wanderers Assistant Manager in this special freeview video.

Chris, first of all can you bring us up-to-date with the injury situation?
We've got a clean bill of health. Matt Taylor is back training today so hopefully we will have a full squad to pick from.

We wanted to be cautious with Matt and he probably could have played on against Sunderland but we chose to take him off because we didn't want to make matters worse and by doing that it has given him every opportunity of playing on Saturday.

Matt has been playing well at the moment and he is knocking a few goals in so he is an important part of the team.

Obviously it was a great win at Sunderland, was that performance as good as any since you've been at the club?
It was a very good performance and we are obviously on a good run of form at the moment. We've been playing very well and even when results weren't going for us, we felt that we were putting in a good shift without getting what we deserved.

If you are consistent and have the belief then results will turn for you and that is exactly what has happened.

It was nice to see Johan Elmander get another couple of goals and double his tally for the club. Do you think that he is going to go on a bit of a run now?
When Johan started the season, he scored against Stoke and was feeling fit. He had a good pre-season programme and he was unfortunate to get injured. He was out for a few weeks and he's needed time to get back into his stride.

As the manager had mentioned, he'd been playing very well from our point of view anyhow and the icing on the cake for him is scoring goals, which he is judged on. Thankfully for him and the team, he is starting to knock them in.

From the player's point of the view, the price tag is nothing. He got the opportunity to move to a new club and he chose to come to us when he could have gone elsewhere.

Johan has had to live with pressure in a number of different countries and he has a proven goalscoring record that he appears to be following here.



It is four wins out of five now, which is a terrific run, and it is often said that winning becomes a habit. Do you think that is now the case at Bolton?
We would hope so. Every game we go in search of the win regardless of who the opponents are.

Confidence is a big thing in any sport and hopefully people will have noted that there is a terrific camaraderie at the club and that's something that hasn't just happened over night, and equally, it's not false.

The players really get along well here and the Manager likewise has gone to great lengths to try to foster that. We have a terrific spirit and a great togetherness and if you couple that with ability then you have the ingredients for success.

The league table is very tight at this moment of time, but do you find yourself looking up the table in terms of teams above Bolton rather than below?
It's a different league this year and it's almost unique for it to be so tight at the bottom. We prepare meticulously for every game and football is a seven-day cycle so we take each game as it comes.

We've worked hard, we've put ourselves in a good position and we'd like to use that now as a platform to move forward.

If you look too far ahead then you can get yourself into difficulty, but we are pleased with the position that we find ourselves in.

We would like to add to our squad in the transfer window and if we can do that then we give ourselves an extra opportunity to finish as high up the table as we possibly can.

There's a good chance that Nicolas Anelka will line up for Chelsea this Saturday. What kind of a reception do you think he will receive from the Bolton supporters?
Well I think Nicolas should get a very good reception. He's a very talented player and when we arrived in late October and early November last year we recognised straight away that he is a class act.

He left us as a top goalscorer in the Premier League and he has managed to replicate that again this season.

Nicolas made the decision that he wanted to leave and we've had to move on as equally as he has. I'm sure that before the game the players will shake his hand and again afterwards.