For the fourth time this season Wanderers had a player sent off last weekend when David Wheater saw red against Everton. Each match in which Bolton have gone a man down has ended in defeat, and Coyle believes improved decision-making on the pitch will see them pull clear of the relegation zone. "Sometimes there are uncontrollables that, as a manager, you can't do anything about," Coyle said. "It is important we keep 11 on the park. You can train all week and prepare players but when it comes to an individual decision they have to have that self-discipline to make sure we have everyone available. "What is important, and what I have stressed to the players, is the decision-making has to be spot-on. The speed and the intensity the game is played at means you have a millisecond to make a decision. "The margins in our league are so fine and unfortunately for us we have come out the wrong side of that for a number of reasons - going down to 10 men every second week hasn't helped us. "We don't plan to play a game with 10 men and that is where the individuals concerned have to recognise their self-discipline in making sure they make the right decision at the right time. "These are huge turning points. If I look back at the games we've finished with 10 men, normally you have five or 10 minutes to ride out the storm but our minimum period is something like 45 minutes. "We have given ourselves a real mountain to climb. Ivan (Klasnic) was sent off early in the second half against Norwich at home, David Wheater after 19 minutes against Everton and Ricardo Gardner after about 47 minutes at Swansea. "If we had taken a point out of each of those games I think we'd be 14th or 15th in the table - that is how fine the margins are." Coyle accepted the club's position in the bottom three could well be contributing to the choices players are making and the errors which have crept into their game. But, on the positive side, he felt it showed they were fighting so hard to turn things around. Wheater is now banned for four matches, as a result of a second red card this season, and Coyle hopes that will give the former England Under-21 international a chance to reflect. "David will learn from that. It wasn't one bad touch it was a second bad touch," he said of the build-up which led to the red card for a tackle on Diniyar Bilyaletdinov. "What David should have done is to give that ball up because there was no immediate danger on the halfway line. "Because he had taken a bad touch he wanted to recover that, but it is the experience of recognising he had made a bad touch and to give it up. "People talk about pressure in football but the pressure we put ourselves under is our own pressure because we want to do well for our football club. "We understand the nature of the Premier League, it has global coverage and with that comes unbelievable scrutiny. "We accept sometimes it will go against us but we don't try to hide behind excuses." Bolton head to Tottenham on Saturday knowing they face another tough task but Coyle takes heart from their visit last season even though that ended in a 2-1 defeat. "Everything is a test of character and football can change so quickly from one week to another in terms of results," he said. "We are going there to be positive and to try to get points. We were more than unlucky last season when we lost at White Hart Lane in the 94th minute when we had two penalties awarded against us. "We go there knowing we can perform on that stage but Tottenham are the form team along with Manchester City."
