YORK City manager Martin Foyle is calling on his players to capitalise on a weekend when at least two of the club’s play-off rivals are guaranteed to drop points.

The fifth-placed Minstermen entertain relegation-threatened Tamworth tomorrow while AFC Wimbledon, in seventh, play host to a Rushden and Diamonds side level on points with the Bootham Crescent outfit but boasting a superior goal difference.

It will also be sixth v eighth at Rockingham Road where Kettering tackle Mansfield.

About the scope for strengthening his team’s top-five claims, Foyle said: “It could be a great three points for us when you take into consideration the other fixtures tomorrow. It’s an opportunity that’s there to be taken.

“Having said that, it looked like we had the hardest game in midweek on paper but we won and Wimbledon and Mansfield dropped points. It’s hard to forecast results at this time of the season when everybody’s nervous and the teams at the bottom don’t make things easy.”

In order to cash in on the “six-pointers” elsewhere, though, City will need to improve on their miserable recent record against the Blue Square Premier’s lesser lights.

Foyle’s men have lost all five of their games against bottom six opposition in the last six weeks, going down to Ebbsfleet (1-0), Eastbourne (1-0), Barrow (2-1), Forest Green (2-1) and Salisbury (2-1).

The City chief feels his team will need to impose their own tempo on the match and show a clinical streak in front of goal if that trend is to be reversed.

He said: “Those results certainly have nothing to do with complacency. We’ve never had that with this group of players, not even in training.

“The players always give everything. I think it’s more to do with teams coming here and being negative.

“There were individual mistakes in those defeats and a fluke goal here and there, but we also had some great chances we should have finished and we need to get the frontline firing again.

“Tomorrow will be another hard game though. Tamworth should have beaten Oxford on Sunday and can change formation and make things hard for you.

“We will need to take the game to them because they will look to slow things down, but there’s nothing wrong with playing like that. We did it last season when we needed to go to places and stifle teams to get the crowd on their backs and you have to deal with that.”