Blackpool manager Lee Clark has described tomorrow’s clash with Boro as the club’s “Champions League final”.
The Tangerines have endured a season to forget and are rooted to the bottom of the Championship, nine points from safety.
Saturday saw Clark’s side battered 4-0 at Norwich, but it’s back to Bloomfield Road tomorrow as in-form Boro look to put another nail in Blackpool’s coffin.
Blackpool have become a tighter unit since Clark’s arrival in October, especially at home where they have lost only one of their last six matches on home soil - a 6-1 humbling by leaders Bournemouth.
Ahead of consecutive home matches against Boro and Nottingham Forest, Clark has stressed the importance for his men to clinch two positive results.
“We are two different teams home and away,” Clark told the club’s website.
“We’ve kept two clean sheets on the bounce in our last two home games and conceded 11 goals in our last two away games, so that tells you.
“We’ve taken 11 points in five games at home, unbeaten, so we’re a different animal at home.
“I said at the start when we turned the corner into January with 20 games to go that they were cup finals. These two home games are our Champions League final and World Cup final.
“By 5pm on Saturday we could have a good idea of what we have to do and where we are for the closing stages of the season.
“They’re crucial games for us. But as I said, we’re a different animal at home, we understand the pitch and understand what’s needed on that. It’s not ideal, we don’t want that, but that’s what we’ve got and we’ve got to handle it.”
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