Wright says Kilmarnock are full of belief in battle for survival as players rediscover route to goal
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.
They sit second bottom, a point behind Ross County in the chase for safety and ahead of hosting Dundee United tonight, 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. If we can keep a couple of clean sheets I'd be confident enough that we'd get the goals that get us enough points."
United midfielder Calum Butcher is determined to keep their impressive run of form going tonight 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.
Butcher said: "We have been on a good run and we want to keep that going.
"It's a really interesting end to the season with the cup games coming thick and fast and we want to finish as strongly as we can.
"It looks like we are safe but 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."