Wigan manager Gary Caldwell says that the club should start doing well in the home matches if their league position is to improve substantially.
After continuous relegations, the club finds itself in League One in the space of a few years. They have targeted a return to the Championship, but it is proving much difficult than expected. The club are 6th in the league table with several points already separating them from the table leaders. It looks like the club will have to settle for a play-off place, which is highly speculative, in order to reach the Championship.
Caldwell, though, still believes that the club will be able to achieve automatic promotion. However, he says that a huge improvement in home form has to take place in order to do so.Caldwell was speaking after the club recently fought heavily and managed a 3-2 win over Gillingham. This victory ended two back-to-back 1-0 losses at the hands of Burton Albion and Blackpool.Caldwell says that it is normal for every team to go through a blip, but are recovering from it is the test of a character of the team. The DW stadium has been a fortress in the past, but the club has taken only 21 points from a possible 33 this season.
“We had a little blip, I think every team has it. You’re not going to go through a season with everything plain sailing.You have to deal with that and we have on the road, which was more pressure.We’ve regrouped in terms of getting results, now we have to get our home form back on track – especially against teams above us in the league.The home games now become very important. We have to go in front of our own fans and win,” said the manager.
