With every team in League Two playing twice over the next week, it could prove to be a defining period in the final season standings.

Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth is, therefore, aware of the need to pick up as many points as possible and has targeted a maximum return from the six available to his side.

Ainsworth is confident his players will rise to the challenge, which starts tomorrow as Martin Allen’s Barnet arrive at Adams Park fresh from a 3-0 trouncing of Leyton Orient.

“We are going for six points from the two games. It would be fantastic to achieve that and would put a real marker down,” Ainsworth explained.

“They are coming off a 3-0 win over Leyton Orient, which is a fantastic result, and are a physical side who get right up in your face.

“It will be a high intensity game and you know what you are going to get from a Martin Allen team no matter who he is managing.”

Ainsworth’s words of praise for Allen’s side were given extra credence by the dominant manner in which the Bees despatched play-off chasing Orient on Saturday.

John Akinde’s two goals at the Hive took his season tally to 18 for the season and The Chairboys will surely have to stifle their former front man if they are to prosper.

By Contrast Wycombe have struggled in front of goal, but Ainsworth feels they can take confidence from a recent record which has seen them win four of their last five matches at home.

He said: “The home form is good at the moment, we have won four out of five matches and it is good form to take into the game.

“Again we need to start creating chances and scoring. The rub of the green [in front of goal] is going to change at some point and if it can change against Barnet it will be very welcome.”

The Blues enjoy a favourable recent record over tomorrow’s opposition having won four of the last six meetings, and two goals from Garry Thompson earned them a 2-0 win when the sides last met in August.

A similar result tomorrow would end a run of three games without a victory for Wycombe as they continue to battle it out for a place in the League Two play-off places.

It would also represent mission accomplished in game one of Ainsworth’s quest to take six precious points in the space of four days ahead of welcoming Yeovil Town to Adams Park on Tuesday.

However, the Wycombe boss will have cope without the services of a string of players after Matt Bloomfield became the latest Wycombe man to suffer an injury.

The midfielder’s fractured arm sees him join Luke O’Nien (knee), Sam Wood (knee), Danny Rowe (hamstring), Paris Cowan-Hall (ankle) and Alex Lynch (thigh) on the treatment table.

Jason McCarthy and Aaron Pierre have spent the week recovering from heavy knocks picked up in the 1-1 draw with York last time out, while Joe Jacobson also faces a race to be fit in time for the Barnet fixture.

Ainsworth says the injury crisis is yet to ease and also revealed the sacrifices some of his players were having to make in order to make sure the club remain competitive.

“Aaron Pierre and Jason McCarthy picked up bad knocks against York. They battled through it because we didn’t have a defender on the bench and people don’t see that we have to put up with that,” Ainsworth said.

“They had to play with knocks for the whole game. We have got a couple of players who we are nursing towards Saturday and we are pretty much as we were with the injury list.

“There is always a chance that someone will come through at the last minute, but they are all quite serious knocks and impact injuries.”