Motherwell boss Graham Alexander says his side are still very much in relegation danger, despite taking four points from their last two games.
Motherwell beat Hibs 2-0 at Easter Road on Saturday, following on from their 0-0 draw at St Mirren in midweek, which put to rest two heavy home defeats against St Johnstone and Hamilton.
That leaves the Steelmen ninth in the table as they head into a crunch clash against Livingston at Fir Park tomorrow, and Alexander knows a win could move them up to seventh.
He also says he won't look at progress at the club until the dust has settled on this season.
Alexander said: "We're certainly not out of the danger zone.
"I've not once mentioned 'top six' to anybody, not talked about the other end to anybody, I've just been talking about the next game, to my players and making sure that we focus on that.
"As soon as we took our focus off of the next game we came unstuck a couple of weeks ago.
"Our first objective coming in was making sure we're a Premiership team, so we weren't thinking about anything more than that, and that's still the case.
"I've said all along that two games, three games, won't be enough to decide our season, it's going to go right to the end, and I don't think that has changed.
"We didn't feel that we were going to come in and win every single game, but we were also hoping we wouldn't come in and lose every game, and that has been the case.
"We've certainly improved on the previous results, but not enough to change the picture dramatically, so we need to keep working really hard."
One 'problem' Alexander has had to contend with has been a high number of injuries, which has resulted in a bumper squad - but several of the players he brought in during the January window have also found their way onto the treatment table.
"It's a big squad, I think it's over 40 players, and obviously we added to that in January because we felt we had to, because of the number of injuries we had," he said.
"Unfortunately probably four or five of those seven players have been injured as well, so it has been really difficult to assess the whole squad, because we haven't had the whole squad - luckily enough, I think, because it think training 40-odd players would be very difficult.
"It's one where I think we've made good improvements on the results, which is the first port of call, and I think with what they've done so far they've gained confidence.
"There have been a couple of set-backs with the team, which I think the players have reacted well to, which is good, but I don't think we can sit here and assess the squad until we get to the end of the season, assess where we are and where we finished.
"There is still a lot of points to play for, and I'm not one for getting half-way through a season and trying to make judgements on everything.
"I think you have to wait until the end of something to look back on it, and that goes for recruitment, our training schedule, everything.
"Until you get to the end then you look and actually see whether we've done a good enough job to keep going with what we've got, or if we have to make improvements.
"We'll wait until the summer to make those sorts of decisions.
"The difficulty would be, if 40 lads were fit, we can only play 11 and I reserve my judgements for games.
"I think it's important that we see them in training every day, and every day in training is an opportunity for them to show what they can do.
"You have to put that into practice, what you train for.
"My focus is on getting results right now and then we'll see where we are, but we're obviously missing some really good players who would certainly improve our squad."
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