Burnley v Cambridge United - Pete Oliver's match preview

BURNLEY may need favours from elsewhere to secure automatic promotion, but won't expect or receive any from Cambridge United when they meet at Turf Moor tomorrow.

The U's have put together a superb run of form, notably away from home, to avoid the drop since being bottom of the table in February.

A 2-0 win over newly crowned champions Preston on Monday guaranteed their safety.

But that doesn't mean they'll be taking it easy against the Clarets, who will be promoted if they win their last two games and Wigan and Gillingham don't take maximum points between now and the end of the season.

Cambridge legend John Taylor insisted that the U's won't mind putting a spanner in the works for Burnley if it means they end their season on a high note.

Taylor said: "I've heard there will be about 20,000 there and they are still in with a chance of automatic promotion. We would like to go there and be the party-poopers.

"We did that to half a degree on Monday against Preston, although other results went their way and they rightly got promoted as champions.

"And we would like to win the game because we would like to finish as high as we can. Although we've had a great last 10 weeks of the season there's no getting away from the fact that we will probably finish sixth or seventh from bottom of the Second Division which is not good enough for the football club." Taylor was last season dubbed King of the Abbey after being voted Cambridge's best player of the past 25 years.

And the veteran striker, in his second stint at the club after spells with Bristol Rovers, Bradford and Luton, has further enhanced his reputation with some crucial goals in tandem with 22-goal leading scorer Trevor Benjamin in recent weeks.

A member of the U's coaching staff, Taylor was forced into more regular playing service again following the sale of Martin Butler to Reading in February.

And his hat-trick at Cardiff City a fortnight ago, which also gave him 100 goals for the club, was a major factor in beating the drop.

He might be given a breather tomorrow, but will expect standards to be maintained.

"The tension and pressure has been on the lads for certainly the last 10 weeks and they have performed admirably and played some superb football to get us into the position we're in now.

"Whether they need to relax a bit more, I'm not sure. As long as we keep playing the way we have been lately , there shouldn't be too many problems," Taylor added. Manager Roy McFarland, who was disappointed not to be able to keep Clarets' defender Tom Cowan on loan until the end of the season, is also keen to pick up three points tomorrow to achieve another target -- finishing above Brentford.

The Bees pipped Cambridge to the Third Division title on a last-day decider at the Abbey Stadium last season and that still rankles.

The U's are now just three points behind fast-falling Brentford, whose latest defeat came at the hands of Burnley on Monday.

However, the Clarets will hope to see the Londoners six points clear of Cambridge tomorrow night, as that would mean success at Turf Moor and a win for Brentford at Burnley's promotion rivals Gillingham.