Giampaolo Pazzini is convinced Sampdoria deserve to qualify for next season's Champions League.
Samp are currently three points off fourth-placed Palermo.
Striker Pazzini told Gazzetta dello Sport: "This place deserves great stages. We must keep growing, also because I have never liked living situations of fulfillment and satisfaction.
"It's a strange season, but for sure Palermo are doing very well. But we know the worth of a team like Juve. And then this Napoli side also has a lot of enthusiasm.
"Anyway, it would be stupid to think about the others. It's already difficult enough looking at our own house.
"At the beginning of the year no one asked us to finish fourth. We are up there, and there are seven games left to try and do it."