GEORGE Johnston reckons Wanderers are now better equipped than ever to take points in League One’s least hospitable arenas. After the luxuries of Arsenal and the Emriates, it is Crawley’s Broadfield Stadium and Northampton Town’s Sixfields next up as Ian Evatt’s side look to build on the 5-2 win against Reading on their own patch last weekend. The squad, which has spent much of the week together in a team camp near Wembley, was given some downtime on Thursday afternoon but has otherwise been looking to keep up the intensity Johnston feels was a big factor in last weekend’s victory.
“The week leading up to Reading was the best week of training I have ever been a part of, so that game was already won in my eyes just by the intensity and standards that we had in the build-up,” he said. “It has been positive in this week too, even with the Arsenal game thrown in. We have played against a world class team, but the lads are still in that good mood, it is a good camp.
“We go to Crawley and know how these occasions are going to play out. We have learned from past mistakes, I think. We need to be streetwise, have the bravery to do what we’re good at, we can’t go into their ground and play their type of football, we want to play our way.
” Wanderers have, in the past, had a patchy record on the road in some of the smaller venues in the division. Last season, however, the January defeat at Leyton Orient was perhaps the only example of that kind, although they had .