Last Updated: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:12
Wigan boss Roberto Martinez expects the battle for Barclays Premier League survival to go down to the final day of the season.
It had looked inevitable for much of the campaign that the three relegated clubs would come from a bottom five of Wolves, Wigan, Bolton, QPR and Blackburn, but the latter four have all begun to pick up important results.
Martinez, who guided his team to a first home win in seven months on Saturday when they saw off Stoke 2-0, said: "The other results are going to be like this until the end of the season.
"We've been in this situation before and we know the last seven or eight games of the season the bottom five are going to pick up a lot of points and there's going to be many twists and turns. You can only control your own fate. We need to have as many points as we can when May 13 arrives.
"I don't think there is a bad team in this league and I don't think there was a bad team last season. Everyone will be fighting until the end.
"Our last two fixtures are against Blackburn and Wolves, and it's very difficult not to think it's going to go down to the last day of the season, but we're pleased with that because we've been through a difficult season, we had eight defeats on the trot and we're very happy to be able to perform in the manner we do being in the bottom three positions."
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