Wycombe Wanderers kept up their superb winning run with an excellent 5-4 win on penalties over Blackpool in the last 16 of the Checkatrade Trophy.

Jamal Blackman was the hero for the Chairboys as he tipped Will Aimson’s penalty onto the post to send Gareth Ainsworth’s men into the quarter-finals as they get ever closer to a Wembley final.

In contrast, all five players for Wycombe, Joe Jacobson, Luke O’Nien, Will De Havilland, Adebayo Akinfenwa and Garry Thompson, scored to send the 53 travelling fans home happy.

It had started badly for Wanderers when Kelvin Mellor firmly headed home Mark Yeates’ corner on nine minutes.

However, Anthony Stewart equalised with 13 minutes of normal time remaining when he lashed home after Joe Jacobson’s corner was only partially cleared.

In between the two goals, the Chairboys definitely shaded proceedings with Garry Thompson seeing a goal disallowed in the first half and Sam Wood cracking the crossbar with a shot from 20 yards.

Apart from the two goals, the best chance in 90 minutes fell to Danny Philliskirk on 33 minutes when he had a chance to put the Tangerines 2-0 up after Marcus Bean felled Bright Osayi-Samuel in the area.

Blackman, however, produced a superb, low save to deny Blackpool doubling their lead and potentially putting the tie beyond Wycombe.

The draw for the quarter-finals is on Thursday and Ainsworth will be hoping for a kind tie for his in-form side.

WYCOMBE WANDERERS: Blackman, De Havilland, Muller, Stewart, Jacobson, Bean, O’Nien, Wood, Thompson, Weston (sub: Cowan-Hall, 75), Hayes (sub: Akinfenwa, 71). Subs: Richardson, Jombati, McGinn, Freeman.

BLACKPOOL: Slocombe, Mellor (sub: Des Pres, 67), Robertson, Aimson, Cullen (sub: Redshaw, 46), Yeates, Philliskirk, Osayi-Samuel, Pugh, Cain, Gnanduillet. Subs: Lyness, Aldred, Payne, Roache.

REFEREE: Eddie Ilderton

ATTENDANCE: 766 (Wycombe 53)