ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman hopes his side’s EFL Cup heroics can inspire another win over Bradford tomorrow when the sides meet for the second time this season.

The Reds have already knocked the Bantams out of one cup competition this season and, having gone on to beat Premier League side Burnley and run West Ham close in that EFL Cup run, Coleman is hoping to draw on that belief for the trip to Valley Parade.

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“It will give the lads confidence,” said Coleman of their early season cup form. “We know we’ve got the capa-bility to do it but we haven’t done it often enough.

“Away from home we have played quite well this season and hopefully that will be the case on Saturday.”

And Coleman, whose side were beaten 3-1 at home by struggling Newport County last time out is hopeful the trip to Yorkshire to take on Phil Parkinson’s high-flying side, will yield a more positive outcome.

He added: “We know that it’ll be hard to go there but we’ve played better aga-inst better sides this season and per-formed well when we’ve been under-dogs so hopefully we’ll do that again.

“It is going to be a tough game, they are probably still smarting about losing to us in the League Cup.

“I think they will come out against us a bit more and give us some space to operate in when we are going forward and we can use that space to play.

“Bradford probably gave us the toughest game we’ve had this season in the EFL Cup so we’re under no illusions how difficult this will be but I think our players have a few things to put straight from the weekend and hopefully they’ll do that.”

And Coleman knows the value a cup run can have on the league form with Stanley currently ninth in League Two and eyeing a run into the auto-matic promotion places this winter.

Bradford are a case in point after they reached the League Cup final in 2013 and secured promotion to the third tier after a play-off final victory.

The Bantams have since reached the last eight of the FA Cup with a 2015 run that included a victory at Premier League giants Chelsea.

It’s no surprise that Coleman wants a slice of the action.

“If you just look back to the impact that the League and FA Cup run had on Bradford a couple of seasons ago when it turned their league form aro-und and they won promotion from mid to low table in League Two,” he said.

“They’ll be some great stories this week, let’s hope we are one of them.”