Blackpool’s final away outing of 2025 ended with a 2-0 victory over Wigan Athletic at the Brick Community Stadium.

Blackpool have hit some good form heading into the festive period - and will be looking to end 2025 on a high.

Following a run of three games without a win at the end of November, the Seasiders have managed seven points in their last three.

Their first league outing of December was a 3-0 victory away to Rotherham United, before backing that up with a point against Lincoln City - which required coming from two-goals down to draw 2-2 at Bloomfield Road.

They built on those results with a 2-0 win over Wigan Athletic at the Brick Community Stadium in their final away outing of the year on Saturday afternoon.

Following a drab opening 59 minutes in Greater Manchester, the introduction of Dale Taylor saw some life breathed into the game.

Blackpool’s summer signing from Nottingham Forest was on hand to assist Ashley Fletcher for the opener, before his teammate returned the favour to gift him his first league goal in Tangerine.

The result should give the Seasiders additional confidence heading into their home meetings with Doncaster Rovers and Rotherham between Christmas and the new year, but Evatt is still looking back wishing his side could’ve done more.

“I’m just gutted we didn’t get the three against Lincoln as well because I can see the players developing and progressing,” he said.

“I can see the work they are doing. I’m perfectionist, but perfection is a destination that doesn’t exist, we just keep striving to get there.

“We’ll keep working hard. It’s another step forward and another good three points. We’re winning consistently away from home now, which we didn’t do at the start of the season when I wasn’t here.

“Credit to the players again for going out there and showing some character, because you need that away from home to win matches.

“It’s another step forward, but this is a long journey, we’ve got a long way to go. It wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but we’re happy with the win. We showed quality at certain times and a good attitude in the second half, but there’s still work to do.

“It’s having more than one string to our bow. We can control games with the ball, or we set traps and steal. Today we felt we could control the game with the ball, but we didn’t do that well enough, and we weren’t progressive enough. In the second half we became more counter attacking.”

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