CONOR Bradley hopes Wanderers can learn a lesson from their frustrations at Wycombe as they bid for Wembley on Wednesday night.

Ian Evatt’s side go to Accrington Stanley in midweek looking to book their place in April’s Papa Johns Trophy final but still smarting from a narrow defeat at Adams Park.

Lewis Wing’s well-taken goal in first half stoppage time proved the difference and with Stanley likely to be just as tricky and physical opposition, Bradley believes Bolton will know exactly where they have to improve.

“It’ll be a very similar game so we need to learn from what happened,” he told The Bolton News.

“It’s a huge game and we’re one away from Wembley, so I am looking forward to it. But we need to put a better performance on that we did here and get into the final.”

The game at Wycombe had been nip and tuck, with Gethin Jones hitting the crossbar early on for Wanderers, up until Wing’s well-worked set piece gave the home side an advantage they defended fiercely thereafter.

“We’re obviously gutted,” Bradley said. “I felt like we started the game well for 20-25 minutes but then stepped off it and that cost us in the end. If you go a goal down at a place like this it is always going to be tough.

“Once teams go a goal up, especially against us, they sit in. And it was hard to break them down from there. We just wanted something to drop in the penalty box to someone’s feet, get a tap in, anything.

“To be fair they are good at what they do. It isn’t personally how I’d want to play football but they are good at it.”

Bradley felt Wanderers did not get a break from referee Andy Woolmer, who turned down two second-half penalty appeals for fouls on Cameron Jerome.

The Liverpool loanee also felt he was hit early on by a tackle from Jonathan Obita that warranted more than a yellow card.

He said: “It was a stonewall penalty and I think there should have been a red card early on for a tackle on me. There were a few questionable ones.

“It was only a minute in but he went clean through me. It was a sore one but thankfully I could carry on and it was nothing serious.”

Wanderers had won their previous two games by five clear goals but Saturday’s sobering defeat leaves them fourth in the table, nine points off the top two, and with a six-point buffer in the play off places.

Bradley was back in the side after a two-game ban for picking up 10 yellow cards and admits he had hoped for a more positive reintroduction to the side.

“It has been a joy to watch when I was suspended but it hasn’t been the return I wanted,” he said.

“I just want to go again Wednesday. The gaffer always says that good teams don’t get beaten back-to-back, so hopefully we can get back to winning ways.”