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Wolves have been written off but we can avoid drop - Ebanks-Blake

Sylvain Ebanks-Blake suggest Wolves have been prematurely written off as they strive to avoid relegation this season.

The bottom-of-the-table Molineux outfit sit six points behind three clubs - Wigan Athletic, Blackburn Rovers and QPR - on 28 points with seven matches remaining. That deficit is too hard to overcome according to some critics but Ebanks-Blake is looking at it from a different perspective ahead of tomorrow's meeting with Stoke City.

"We've been written off and you can use that for motivation, but I look at it another way as well," he said.

"I said to the lads 'There's a five-point gap between Manchester United and Manchester City at the top of the table but no-one is writing Man City off.' No-one is saying the title race is over.

"Our gap is six points and people are writing us off but there's not much difference. Why can't we make up that gap?

"I remember when Blackburn came and beat us they went six points clear and everyone said that it was down to four teams involved.

"I looked at the table this week and they are in the bottom three again. Things do change.

"If it is that there's a miracle needed for us to stay up it has to start somewhere and so why not at Stoke on Saturday?"

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