Wycombe Wanderers boss Gareth Ainsworth still wants a crack at winning automatic promotion from League One this season.

Coventry City are five points clear at the top of the table with 10 matches to go.

The Sky Blues have a seven-point cushion inside the top two, with a game in hand over many of their rivals.

Wycombe are eighth but only three points behind second-placed Rotherham United, with a game in hand themselves.

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The campaign remains suspended due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis and League One clubs are set for a final vote on how to end the season next week.

Teams will either attempt to play their remaining fixtures, or the season will be curtailed, with the final standings determined by a points-per-game (PPG) system.

Fleetwood Town boss Joey Barton wants to complete the season but has said that nobody in the division would begrudge Coventry promotion.

However, Ainsworth reckons his side have the edge on Mark Robins' men based on one key statistic.

"We still think we had a good chance on the pitch of getting one of the automatics," he told The Football Show on Sky Sports.

"I watched Joey earlier and my sentiments are the same as him. We've got 10 games to go - we've got seven (against teams) in the bottom half of the table.

"We've been in the top two more than any other club this season - I think 20 weeks total that Wycombe have been in the top two.

"And the only reason we dropped out of that top three is that we had Bury (who dropped out of the league) scheduled the week before the lockdown.

"So everyone has passed us, we were ready to play Burton the next Saturday, and everything gets called off - rightly so, by the way. I'm not saying it shouldn't have been.

"So I'm saying that we still had plenty to play for on the pitch.

"From a competitive point of view, give me the 10 games we have remaining, because I believe we'll finish at least in the play-offs, if not an automatic.

"But it has to be safe. Everyone has to be safe before we come back."

Under the PPG system, Wycombe would be catapulted from eighth to third - securing themselves a play-off place.

Ainsworth, though, still has his sights set on a top-two finish.