• We have to be ambitious, Senderos adds
• Wigan remain in 17th with three games to go
Philippe Senderos believes Fulham may well equal their record seventh-place finish, achieved in the 2008–09 season, when Roy Hodgson led the team up the table. They now sit ninth after a late victory against in-form Wigan and have four games remaining.
Senderos's header secured the three points and the defender reckons the club can equal their best-ever finish. "We have to be ambitious," the Swiss said. "We have a great quality in the team and our home form has been brilliant this season.
"If we continue like this and playing well and getting goals like our forwards have been doing, then I think we have got a chance [of finishing seventh]. It is up to us now to see where we are going to finish. We have very important games until the end of the season and we are an ambitious team. We have very good players and hopefully we can look forward to the top rather than looking backwards."
While Fulham eventually secured victory, they had fallen behind to a superb goal from Emmerson Boyce. Pavel Pogrebnyak equalised just over 60 seconds later and then saw a 63rd-minute effort hit the underside of the bar and bounce towards the line. The referee waved play on having ruled the ball was not fully over.
"I think we were on top in the game and it was a bit unfortunate to concede," Senderos added. "We knew we were going to score, though, so it was really good we reacted so quick and we got the winning goal at the end. I think our home form has been brilliant and we have done very good over the last few weeks, but we have to give credit to Wigan. They have beaten big teams in the last few weeks and I thought we did brilliantly.
"We had a couple of breaks on the counter attack but couldn't score and we looked dangerous from a few set pieces. Thank God I put my head in the right place at the right time. I thought it was coming and it was good to get the goal. It has been a while since I have scored so I was really happy."
The result leaves Wigan in 17th place and just three points off the relegation zone with three matches remaining, but the manager Roberto Martínez is positive his side will respond at home to Newcastle next weekend. "We have not got enough points to achieve our aim and I don't think we can afford to look elsewhere," he said. "All the teams, as you know, are going to fight for their lives. We will do the same. We will concentrate on ourselves and do everything we can to get more than 34 points.
"That is a fantastic return knowing where we were two months ago, but the reality is that it is not going to be enough at this present time. We are just concentrating on getting as many as we can from the remaining nine points.
"There are two games at home – one against Newcastle and one against Wolves – and Blackburn away, so you can imagine they are very competitive fixtures." Read More
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