Peterhead goalkeeper Greg Fleming said the onus is on the Blue Toon to keep the pressure up on League 2 leaders Edinburgh after their comfortable victory over Stirling Albion.
The Buchan team, with a game in hand, trail the capital club by five points as the halfway point of the campaign approaches.
Last season Jim McInally’s men were unable to hunt down Montrose, missing out on the title on the final day of the season before enduring play-off heartache against Stenhousemuir.
With Edinburgh City maintaining their lead at the top, Fleming is anticipating another tight title race.
He said: “Edinburgh are a good team, make no bones about it.
“They have some really good players so it is going to be difficult,” he said.
“But if we keep doing what we have been doing, who knows what can happen?
“We have been doing OK but we need to keep it going because Edinburgh have got another win as well.
“We need to do as much as we can and hope that Edinburgh slip up at some stage.”
Peterhead’s latest win was never in doubt after they scored twice in each half to move on to 38 points from 16 games.
Jack Leitch and Rory McAllister had the hosts in control at the interval before two headers from Derek Lyle and Cammy Eadie sealed the victory.
Fleming added: “It was a good win.
“We probably needed a game after last week’s postponement and I think we started off decent enough and took our chances when they came along.
“It was just a pity we conceded right at the end because 4-0 and a clean sheet would have been perfect before Christmas but it was still a good result.”
Leitch started the scoring in the 14th minute, rifling a volley from just inside the box beyond Cammy Binnie.
Darren Smith should have hauled Stirling level when he slid a close-range effort wide and McAllister made last season’s League 2 player of the year pay by netting from a tight angle in the 28th minute.
Failure to defend two Jamie Stevenson corners early in the second half ended Stirling’s faint chances of a fightback as Lyle looped a 55th minute header into the opposite corner before Eadie nodded home in the 63rd minute.
Ronan Hughes scored a consolation with two minutes remaining as Kevin Rutkiewicz’s team crashed to a first defeat in six games.