Matt Taylor issues call for belief to his Bristol Rovers players ahead of Blackpool trip
Bristol Rovers will be looking to follow up last weekend’s win at Bolton Wanderers with another at Blackpool on Saturday
Matt Taylor has called for his Bristol Rovers players to believe that they can compete with the league’s top teams ahead of this Saturday’s trip to Blackpool after recording an impressive 2-1 win

at the side who had sat in second place going into the contest, taking an early lead through John Marquis before seeing Bolton captain Ricardo Santos sent off which soon lead to Antony Evans doubling their advantage.

Plenty had been made in the build-up to last weekend’s game of Rovers’ record against League One’s juggernauts in which they have largely performed excellently but not taken the deserved result from that. Now, after securing arguably their most significant victory of the season so far, Taylor has called for his players to go again when they travel to eighth place Blackpool who will be targeting an immediate return to the Championship after relegation last season.

We were so strong in our mindset at Bolton. You have to be so strong in your mindset when you go away from home but also, you’ve got to back up performances. We didn’t want Crewe to just be a one-off and not back that up. We backed that up fantastically well at Bolton. Now, can we do that in the league again?

Confidence plays its part. John’s started hitting the back of the net, Antony Evans. We scored from a set-piece at Crewe. All of these factors are just so important in terms of taking away the questions that I was answering two games ago in relation to who’s going to score and how we’re going to score and what that would look like.