Matt Bloomfield has urged Wanderers to “finish the job” after their hopes of automatic promotion fell back into their own hands.

The Blues would have dropped into the play-off spots had Bury beaten Southend on Tuesday night, but after the Shrimpers prevailed 1-0 at Gigg Lane Wycombe stayed in the top three by virtue of having a better goal difference than Phil Brown’s team.

It means that – barring a five goal swing – the Chairboys will secure promotion to League One if they triumph in their final two games against Morecambe and Northampton.

Gareth Ainsworth’s team have already amassed a club record amount of points for a single season in the Football League, 81 – an amount which would have been good enough to have sealed a top three spot in three of the last four seasons.

“The two times I’ve got promoted at Wycombe I’ve got 78 and 80 points,” said Bloomfield. “It’s a record season for points in a season by a Wycombe team, which is great but it won’t mean anything if we don’t get promoted.

“It’s been a great league this year, the top teams have been picking up points left, right and centre and we’ve managed to be amongst them since September.

“It’s been a record breaking season, in terms of picking up points, but we need to make sure that we get over the line with however many points we need. Whether that’s 87 or whatever, that’s our aim – to get those two wins and not leave anything else to chance.”

When Wanderers take to the Adams Park turf ahead of kick-off against Morecambe on Saturday it will be almost exactly a year on from their final home fixture of last season – a 2-1 defeat to Bristol Rovers which left them three points adrift of safety heading into the final game.

Blues survived on the last day of the season thanks to victory against Torquay coupled with results elsewhere, and Bloomfield feels there will be a markedly different atmosphere when the team embark on their lap of honour at the end of Saturday’s game whether they win, lose or draw.

The midfielder said: “We were near on disaster last year by falling out of the league and now, 12 months later, it’s all forgotten and we’re fighting to get out the top of the league which is just an amazing turnaround.

“Credit needs to go to the manager, the whole squad and staff, and the supporters for sticking with us as well because it’s been a really tough time. To come through the other side smiling and looking forward to these last two games is incredible really.

“I’m sure there will be a contrasting atmosphere. We’re focussed on the job and I think when people say things like ‘it would be great just to get in the play-offs’ that has to be taken with a bit of reality considering where we’ve come from.

“Equally, now we’ve got into this position we want to go on and achieve promotion. Make no mistake we’ll be doing that but even if it does end up in play-offs it’s a great achievement in itself, but we’ll be doing everything we can to get promotion and that’s our only aim.”