Bradford Metropolis: Graham Alexander hopes big-game know-how will assist in play-offs


Bradford Metropolis supervisor Graham Alexander stated his facet would take their expertise of high-pressure video games on the finish of the season with them into the League One play-offs.

The Bantams are getting ready for the primary leg of their semi-final away to Bolton Wanderers on Saturday night (20:00 BST).

They missed out on a League Two play-off spot on the ultimate day two years in the past earlier than clinching automated promotion with a late winner on the ultimate day final season.

And of their first marketing campaign within the third tier since 2019, victory at Exeter Metropolis secured a formidable fourth-place end to arrange the possibility for successive promotions.

“We will all use our expertise,” Alexander advised BBC Radio Leeds. “For the final two years right here at Bradford, we have been concerned in these varieties of video games. We have been constructing that mentality up.

“In direction of the tip of the season, they’re large video games and there’s a strain on them, however that is the place you wish to be.

“We field it off correctly in our minds and give attention to what’s wanted to do. It’s going to stand us in good stead.”