Blackpool 2 Doncaster Rovers 0: O'Driscoll sleeps well despite defeat

Instead, Blackpool kept the heat on Coca-Cola Championship play-off rivals Leicester with a fourth straight win withgoals from DJ Campbell and substitute Stephen Dobbie.

Ian Holloway's in-form Seasiders have scored 13 goals in their last four league encounters and their extra firepower proved the difference.

Doncaster manager Sean O'Driscoll lent his support to Blackpool's more realistic play-off bid as they trail sixth-placed Leicester by just one point, while the defeat leaves Rovers nine points adrift of the play-off places with four games remaining.

"I never really thought we had a serious chance of the play-offs in the first place," said O'Driscoll.

"We are in our second season in the Championship, and I will not be losing any sleep over this.

"The pitch made it very difficult for the two footballing sides, but I am delighted for Blackpool. If they make it to the play-offs, they will champion the cause of the little clubs like ourselves."

Campbell, on loan from Leicester since early February, struck his third goal in two games from close range midway through the first half and Dobbie added a second in the 67th minute soon after replacing the injured Hameur Bouazza.

Blackpool manager Ian Holloway said: "I am bursting with pride for my lads."

Blackpool: Gilks, Coleman, Evatt, Baptiste, Crainey, Southern, Vaughan, Adam, Campbell, Taylor-Fletcher, Bouazza (Dobbie 65). Unused substitutes: Rachubka, Clarke, Burgess, Martin, Euell, Edwards.

Doncaster: Sullivan, Chambers, Martis, O'Connor, Roberts, Coppinger (Mutch 86), Oster (Shiels 86), Wilson, Emmanuel-Thomas, Heffernan, Hayter. Unused substitutes: Smith, Lockwood, McDaid, Hird.

Referee: D Webb (County Durham).