JOHN Coleman wants his players to ‘show the nation’ their full potential when they take to the field against AFC Wimbledon at the Wham Stadium tonight.

It’s make or break for Stanley as they look to claw back a one-goal disadvantage in the second leg of their play-off semi-final and book at place at Wembley for a Bank Holiday Monday showdown with Plymouth.

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With the Sky Sports cameras beaming the match across the country, and around the globe, Coleman is keen for his talented team to rediscover their mojo and impress the watching masses.

He said: “A lot of people will get the chance to judge on TV. What I’ve said to our players is that I’ve been telling the world and his wife how good they are and how well we’ve played this season.

“It’s a fact. We’ve played some fantastic football, so we’ve got two TV games now to put that on a stage.

“I think people saw that we were capable of trying to play a decent passing game (in the first leg) on Saturday, albeit not offering too much of an attacking threat that we’d like.

“Hopefully we can put all the elements together on Wednesday and show the nation what a good side we are.”

Coleman admits Wimbledon are favourites after their narrow 1-0 win at Kingsmeadow, courtesy of sub Tom Beere’s 93rd-minute strike.

But he says the goal doesn’t change Stanley’s position too much.

He added: “They’re in the box seat. But we could have drawn that game 0-0 comfortably and we could have conceded after a minute at home and been in exactly the same position.

“We know what we’ve got to do. We had to score, so our mission hasn’t changed.

“It might change the way they play. It might mean they sit in and try to keep what they’ve got.

“I think Neil Ardley is a great manager, and he’ll be saying what you expect him to say, that they’re not going to sit in and come and try to win the game.

“It might make the game interesting.

“I know from our point of view we’ve got to attack the game from the off.

“We can’t change the way we play. We’ve got different tactics, different systems, different styles and different shapes, but our style of play is what you see is what you get.

“It’s a bit late in the day now if you want to start changing everything after 47 games.

“We’ll play the way we know we can play, we’d just like to be a bit more forceful, a bit more attack-minded, a bit more aggressive in the final third and hopefully get the pay-off that we want.”

Coleman admits his side froze in the first half against Stevenage on the final day of the season and he wants them to do themselves justice this time.

“I just want the players to get the recognition for what they’ve done this season,” he said.

“They’ve played ever so well. We haven’t been brilliant every week, but you can count on one hand the times we’ve actually not really turned up to a game.

“For how hard they’ve worked and for how well they’ve played, I just really hope they get what they deserve which would be a win and a trip to Wembley.

“I though they particularly took the Stevenage result really hard, but then they got back up and they showed that with how they competed on Saturday.

“I know they can’t wait for the game to come.”