Wright keen to keep the good times rolling at Killie
TOMMY WRIGHT says belief is soaring at Rugby Park now that Kilmarnock have rediscovered the knack of scoring.
Killie are the lowest scorers in the Premiership with just 28 goals so far. But the appointment of the Northern Irishman back in February and his capture of compatriot Kyle Lafferty has sparked the Ayrshiremen into life.
They have now registered 15 strikes in their last five games and Wright hopes their newfound confidence in the final third can inspire Killie to a daring survival bid.
Ahead of their game with Dundee United at Rugby Park this evening, Wright said: “Since we’ve come in there’s been a positive vibe. The players have responded well to what we’ve wanted them to do in terms of how we’ve wanted them to play.
“Where the confidence levels and belief have risen, that’s simply because we’ve started to score goals. We’ve got 15 in the last five games so that helps the belief. When I came in it took us a while to get the first goal and before that we’ve been a team that has struggled to get goals.
“Solving that can create confidence. We’re going into games now believing that we’re going to score goals and create chances.
“Now the other side which still needs to improve is clearly keeping clean sheets. That too can win you points and we need to keep more in these four league games we have left. Hopefully we have more in the cup with Saturday’s quarter-final against St Mirren coming up too.”
Dundee United midfielder Callum Butcher, meanwhile, is determined to keep his side’s impressive run of form going as they look to finish the season with a Scottish Cup run.
United set up a trip to Pittodrie to face Aberdeen on Sunday when they beat Forfar to make it four consecutive wins and six games unbeaten.
He said: “We’ve been on a good run and we want to keep that going. It’s an interesting end to the season with the cup games coming thick and fast and we want to finish as strongly as we can. We want to pick up as many points as we can and keep that momentum going because we want to go into Sunday with confidence.”