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

Ian Evatt admits he had to remind his side of some truths at half time as Dale Taylor proved influential off the bench after the break to help Blackpool to a 2-0 victory over Wigan Athletic.

The Seasiders summer signing from Nottingham Forest was on hand to assist Ashley Fletcher for the opener in the 59th minute, before his teammate returned the favour to gift him his first league goal in Tangerine.

Blackpool now head into the festive period with seven points from their last three games, as they look to pull themselves up League One.

“I’m focussed on us delivering performances and points because the league table will take care of itself,” Evatt said.

“I’ve got to say, this week in training they’ve been fantastic, I’ve seen so many good things, but I felt in the first half we were almost in training mode. We were going through our patterns and progressions, but it wasn’t intense enough.

“Away from home, I didn’t feel like we earned the right - we didn’t put the ball in to ask them questions to be able to play. We didn’t have the same energy or zest. It’s a challenging thing to deliver being a team that’s calm and composed in possession, to then being hyper aggressive and stealing the ball.

“We had words at half time, and I told the players the truth and that was ‘we are loads better than that, we are away from home and we have to earn the right.’

“We altered the press and decided to sacrifice possession a little bit. We set traps - and we did that superbly well for the two goals. I’m delighted for Dale Taylor, he worked so hard to get back, to steal the ball and show the composure to find Ashley Fletcher was brilliant.

“The second goal was a moment of quality, a really good move, and scored at the right time.”

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