John Sheridan has underlined the importance of home form ahead of the game against Cheltenham Town at Boundary Park tomorrow.

Athletic lie joint-top of League One after winning each of their first two games, including an impressive 2-0 away win at Leeds last weekend.

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But, according to Sheridan, it's home form which provides the building blocks for a promotion push.

"Home form is vital if we're to get out of this division, and we were on and off at Boundary Park last year," he said.

"We lost a lot of games 1-0 here where we had a lot of the possession and ended up losing - I remember them clearly.

"I think we're a team who can score goals and we'll be trying to keep the ball in the opposition's half as much as possible."

Under boss Keith Downing, Cheltenham notched their first League win of the season at home to Swindon last weekend.

And his opposite number Sheridan is taking nothing for granted ahead of the game.

The Boundary Park chief has overseen some encouraging early-season performances, and has urged his side to maintain the standards they have set.

"We've given ourselves the start we all wanted with two great results, and I hope they give confidence to the team, the club and the area as a whole," he explained.

"We got a fantastic result at Leeds but I said immediately afterwards these [Cheltenham] are the games we have to win.

"Cheltenham will be very tough opponents but we can get want we want from the game if we go into it showing the attitude and commitment we've shown recently.

"They have a good manager who's brought a few players in on loan recently.  Barry Hayles is a good, experienced pro who's been around a long time and he will be a good addition for them.

"But I hope Cheltenham are worrying about us more than we're worrying about them because we're the home team and we'll be taking the game straight to them."