Blackpool defender admits frustration ahead of AFC Wimbledon and Doncaster Rovers trips

Blackpool travel to League One rivals AFC Wimbledon on Wednesday night.

Blackpool star Olly Casey has admitted he has been left frustrated by his side’s inability to find consistency - but remains ‘confident results will turn’ as the final stages of the battle against relegation rapidly approach.

The Tangerines are sitting just two points and one place above the relegation zone after Saturday’s 1-1 home draw with fellow League One strugglers Wigan Athletic meant Ian Evatt’s side have won just one of their last eight games. It could and perhaps should have been very different for Casey and his team-mates after he handed them the perfect start when his header put his side in front with just four minutes on the clock.

However, the Tangerines were punished for their inability to build on a perfect opening to the game as an Owen Moxon equaliser ensured Wigan secured a point from their trip to Bloomfield Road. A lack of consistency has plagued Blackpool’s side and has meant they have never really escaped the clutches of the relegation battle throughout what has been another challenging campaign. All focus is now on what will be a tough looking test at AFC Wimbledon on Wednesday night and Casey believes the game can provide an opportunity to kickstart an improvement as the Tangerines prepare for face several other sides in and around them at the wrong end of the table.

He told the club website: "If you look at the games coming up, we need to be picking up results in every game and then hopefully, by the end of the month, we can breathe a little bit. There's going to be pressure in each game but it's up to us to just get on with it now and get the results. It's all on what we do really because, irrelevant of everyone else, if we get the wins that we need to get then it doesn't matter about anyone else, so we've just got to concentrate on ourselves.

"The frustration we have now is the consistency, because we show it (fight) every now and then, but we've not shown it enough this season. But it's definitely there. We're all so frustrated, because some games you look at us and you think 'There's no way that's a team near the bottom of the table.' But other weeks, it's just not good enough. We've got to keep doing what we've done today and we're confident results will turn."

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