http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Shaun-Maloney-c33274 believes that Wigan have themselves a great chance of avoiding relegation this season and that the players should make full use of their belief and irresistible form going into the last two games of the season.
Wigan Athletic have been one of the most in-form sides in the Barclays Premier League for the past couple of weeks. The side have won four of their past six matches and the 12 points they have earned during that time has lifted the club out of the relegation
zone.
Recording victories against the likes of Liverpool, Stoke, Arsenal and Manchester United has seen the club jump to 16th place in the league with a three-point cushion over Queens Park http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rangers-c40314 and Bolton Wanderers, with the latter currently in
the relegation zone.
Wigan play Blackburn on the weekend and a win there would almost certainly guarantee them Barclays Premier League football next season as well.
Wigan Athletic winger, Shaun Maloney, admits that despite the media writing them off, the manager and the players “knew we had it all to do, particularly with the fixtures we had.”
He also admitted the run was nothing short of unbelievable and that the reason they managed to get the results that they did was down to their belief in themselves.
“Could we have believed it? If you’d looked at it at the start of that run, no, probably not. But when we looked at individual games, like going to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809, we did believe we could beat them.”
He continued, “It kind of snowballed from that. To beat Manchester United at home and then go to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429, those are games from which we probably didn’t expect to pick up six points.”
Looking ahead to the remaining two matches in the league and avoiding relegation, Maloney said, “We’ve got a right good chance of staying up. We must not waste it.”
Wigan Athletic face Blackburn http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rovers-c40385 on the 7th of May before their last match in the 2011/12 season against Wolverhampton Wanderers on the 13th of May.
Depending on results elsewhere a point could be enough to assure Wigan stay in the Premier League, however that is a chance that neither Maloney nor his teammates would like to take.
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