Ian Evatt admitted that Morecambe got under the skin of Bolton Wanderers towards the end of the first half of their draw last night as he felt his side became too emotional after conceding.
Wanderers began the clash at the University of Bolton Stadium exceptionally well and could have been a few goals to the good by half-time.
Dion Charles missed a glorious chance and struck the crossbar with another effort, while Amadou Bakayoko saw an effort land wide.
But Cole Stockton gave the visitors the advantage after making the most of George Johnston's short pass to give the Shrimps the lead at the break.
Wanderers huffed and puffed after the break but got a stoppage time equaliser when Xavier Amaechi teed up fellow substitute Jon Dadi Bodvarsson to net late on and salvage a point with a 1-1 draw.
Shrimps boss Adams was booked midway through the first half for entering Bolton's technical area and handling the Wanderers players, according to Evatt.
The Bolton boss believes the Shrimps got under Bolton's skin which he feels was part of their plan but Evatt believes his side just want to protect their own in that circumstance.
He did feel though that Bolton got embroiled too much in Morecambe's 'spoiling tactics' when they ought to have stuck to their guns and be good at what they do as he was pleased to pick up a point after their first half showing at the University of Bolton Stadium.
He said: “I guess that’s what they want (to get under the skin). We just want to protect our own. That’s all we want. We want it to be a competitive football match and that’s as far as it goes really. I won’t stand for anybody handling my players.
“What’s said and what’s happened in the technical area should really stay in there. We really shouldn’t be precious about it so it is what it is. I’ll protect my own and he’ll protect his own and that’s the game, that’s football.
“But probably we became too emotional, especially after the goal that they scored. We got embroiled in some of the spoiling tactics when really we should have stayed calm and composed and just carried on doing what we’re doing, because what we’re doing was really good.
“Even if if stays 0-0 until 60 or 70 minutes, eventually you’ll break their spirit because they become panicky and they start to hang on, but when you concede a goal like that, it lifts them and gives them that extra 10 per cent of energy that they need to try and hang on to the result and that’s what happened.
"We have to learn from that, it was just an out of character poor mistake and it wobbled him and wobbled us for a while but I’m delighted that they’ve got back into it because some of our play, especially first half was as good as you’ll see.”
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