Guiseley boss Mark Bower will send out his players with a simple message at relegation rivals Borehamwood on Saturday: Win the game and we are safe.

The Lions are aiming to bounce back from their 1-0 defeat at Macclesfield last weekend as they bid to safeguard their safety in the Vanarama National League.

With two games remaining, Bower’s men lie two points above Borehamwood, who are level on points with fourth-bottom Halifax but above Jim Harvey’s men on goal difference.

Yet Bower is only concerned with his side’s situation and he knows that victory would finally end their relegation fears.

Bower, who steered Guiseley to a historic promotion from the Conference North last season, said: “If we go to Borehamwood and we win then we are safe.

“That’s the way we’ve got to look at it and that’s the way we will approach it.

“On the whole we have been putting in decent performances recently and even at Macclesfield last weekend, without playing the kind of football we produced the previous Tuesday when beating Wrexham, we were pretty solid and we looked strong.

“It’s a big, big game on Saturday now and we’ve got to go down there and get a result. They will be thinking that they have got to beat us really.

“It’s a tough, tough league and we want to be a part of it again next year, so we’ve got to make sure that we go and do the job this weekend.

“We will prepare well for the game and we will go again. We can’t be relying on other results going our way.”

Bower was left bitterly frustrated after his side’s reverse at Macclesfield, which saw Paul Lewis glance home a near-post header from a corner in the 76th minute.

Bower said: “There was nothing in it and we were just so sloppy at that set play.

“We have thrown clean sheets in the past two weeks by such poor individual marking at set-pieces.

“The lad just saunters into the box and heads it in – it has been a real problem for us all season.

“No matter how well or poorly you play, you can’t allows teams to score goals like that.

“When you’re playing well, it knocks the stuffing out of you and when you’re not playing well, you have to be able to defend your box.

“We have not done it and got punished and then right at the end the ball is bobbling about in their box and you think ‘how many chances do we need to put it in?’

“It just doesn’t go in for us and it puts the pressure on us for this week now.”