After an intense November fixture list, Wanderers are in the midst of a ten-day break from action.

Wycombe played eight games in all competitions last month, starting off with a disappointing run of results but ending by picking up seven points in a week.

The break comes because of the Chairboys’ first-round exit in the FA Cup, with the second round taking place this weekend.

In recent years, Wanderers have had varying performance levels when returning from breaks like this, so will be keen to keep their mini unbeaten run going when Burton and Wimbledon both come to south Bucks.

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In the 2015/16 season, Wycombe were sat in the automatic promotion places after 10 games, before a two-week pause during the international break.

They returned from that with back-to-back defeats against Stevenage and Newport, and arguably, never really recovered as that campaign petered out to a 13th-place finish.

A couple of seasons later, the Chairboys were forced into a 10-day break after a fixture at Crawley was postponed due to the weather.

Wanderers’ return could hardly have been more different this time as they embarked on an eight-game unbeaten run that set them on the way to eventual promotion to League One.

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In that first season back in the third tier, the longest break came in the March international break when Wycombe’s meeting with Charlton had to be rearranged.

That came during the run that saw the Chairboys fall from the fringes of the play-off places to a relegation battle, going 12 games without a win.

The Charlton postponement came towards the latter part of that, but it didn’t help Wycombe turn things around, going on to lose three in a row immediately after the break.

Another occasion when some time off worked in Wycombe’s favour was the early part of the 2019-20 campaign, when a postponement of a trip to Ipswich was followed by six wins in eight league games, the other two being drawn.

That run played a significant part in the promotion to the Championship, where Wanderers would become more accustomed to having breaks from matches because of the enforced international breaks.

The first one came when Gareth Ainsworth’s team were still adapting to life in the second tier, but November saw Wanderers return to action with two consecutive clean sheets, perhaps evidence of Wycombe’s relatively low number of internationals allowing the team to work more on the training ground.

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And following the March interruption, the Chairboys came back with consecutive wins against Blackburn and Rotherham.

There has certainly been a mixture of results in situations like this in the past, but if Wanderers can pick up a couple of wins against Burton and Wimbledon, it will set them up well for the festive period with another lengthy break not likely to come until well into the New Year.