Bournemouth fell to an agonising stoppage-time defeat to Argyle in the league last weekend, which dented their promotion charge.
While they are very much still in the hunt to go up to the WSL2, Bleazard’s side will be eyeing up bouncing back against the team that beat them last week and lifting some silverware at the same time.
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Bleazard compared the game to a chess match and knows that small details could decide whether the trophy heads to Dorset or Devon.
“It was a really good game of football, I thought [the league game last weekend],” she told the Daily Echo.
Helen Bleazard (Image: AFC Bournemouth)
“I said to my assistant in the first half, I was like, if you're a neutral, this is a really good game.
“Sometimes it ends up being a bit of a basketball match because both teams love attacking. But again, that tactical piece of they set up a certain way, I always say it's a chess match.
“They do one thing, we do another, and vice versa, we do one thing, they do another. So in those types of moments, they're never boring games of football.
“I think that's the best thing that this cup final is going to be.
“It's going to be a good game of football no matter who wins.
“And I back us to do it. I really think we have a fantastic group and we're going to make sure that we go and rectify the little tweaks that we have to do to put it right.”
FA WNL Cup (Image: Micah Crook/KontentHaus)
Reflecting on the league defeat, Bleazard said her side played well, but small things went against them.
She said she had gone about their analysis this week in a different way to usual: “I tweaked analysis a little bit yesterday, and I got the players to actually do a bit more reflection rather than just me sit there with a TV and tell them what we thought.
“It was really, really good because we put them into unit groups and we talked about it, and all the units were saying the same things and mirroring the things that the staff thought.
“That's the most important thing, no matter what in terms of a reflection, so Jess [Hennessy] and the defenders talked through certain things that they saw, but also certain things on what maybe the midfield and the attackers could do.
“So it's not just about my voice, it doesn't have to be my voice every week.
“I think I really want to empower the girls to have a voice and feel like they can understand and reflect themselves.
AFC Bournemouth vs Plymouth Argyle. (Image: Newsquest)
“And it's yes, we lost the game. It's not blame culture, it's how can we learn, how can we reflect.
“I feel like it was a really, really positive day yesterday, and it just showed in the clips that we were showing that we had some really, really good moments in and out of possession.
“And it's just about understanding that actually we may have not got the result, but the performance was still really, really good.
“It's how we just have that bounce-back ability now and that mentality to, if we need to go and win that ball, make sure we go and win it. And that's all it is, it's minor details.”
The Cherries head to Queens Park Rangers’ Loftus Road on Saturday, March 28 to meet Plymouth Argyle in the National League Cup final.
Kick off is at 3.30pm. Follow live coverage from the ground on the Daily Echo website. Tickets can be purchased on the QPR website.