Wanderers have tackled their third play-off campaign in four seasons and head back to Wembley two years on from a painful final loss to Oxford United. With captain Eoin Toal sadly ruled out of a return with a hamstring injury suffered in the second leg of the semi-final win at Bradford, Josh Sheehan will be the only survivor from the starting line-up beaten 2-0 by the U’s.
Midfield colleague Ruben Rodrigues was on the winning side that day and Schumacher believes his players will be well equipped to handle the challenge – backed by close to 30,000 Wanderers’ fans who could also have a huge part to play on Sunday.
“They (the players) understand what it looks like,” he added. “Some have got positive experiences and others have had not positive experiences that they can learn from. We go there with a good mentality, a good frame of mind that we know that if we perform as well as we can, if we stick together as a group, then we’ve got enough in our squad to get the result that we all desperately want.
“It’s a huge credit to the amount of fans that are going down. It’s a Sunday, early kick-off at one o’clock, not easy to get to on a Bank Holiday weekend with train disruption all over the place, so for people travelling down we really appreciate it and we’re going to do our best.”
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