Senderos eyes seventh heaven for Fulham
The Cottagers achieved their highest-ever league position in the 2008/09 season when Roy Hodgson led them to seventh in the table.
Fulham currently lie ninth after Saturday’s late 2-1 victory against in-form Wigan with four games remaining.
Senderos’ header in the 89th minute secured the three points and believes they’ll challenge for seventh.
“We have to be ambitious,” he said. “We have a great quality in the team and our home form has been brilliant this season.
“If we continue like this and playing well and getting goals like our forwards have been doing then I think we have got a chance [of finishing seventh].
“We have very important games until the end of the season and we are an ambitious team. We have very good players and hopefully we can look forward to the top rather than looking backwards.”
While Fulham eventually secured victory, they had fallen behind to a superb Emmerson Boyce strike in the second half.
Pavel Pogrebnyak equalised just over 60 seconds later and then saw a 63rd-minute effort hit the crossbar and bounce down towards the line.
The officials waved play on having ruled the ball was not fully over but Senderos grabbed the decider, much to the defender’s relief.
“I think we were on top in the game and it was a bit unfortunate to concede,” he said.
“We knew we were going to score, though, so it was really good we reacted so quick and we got the winning goal.
“I think our home form has brilliant and we have done very good over the last few weeks, but we have to give credit to Wigan.
“They have beaten big teams in the last few weeks and I thought we did brilliantly.
“We had a couple of breaks on the counter attack but couldn’t score and we looked dangerous from a few set pieces.
“Thank God I put my head in the right place at the right time. It has been a while since I have scored so I was really happy.”
The result leaves Wigan in 17th and just three points off the relegation zone with three matches remaining.
Yesterday’s defeat came after a magnificent run that saw them beat Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, but manager Roberto Martinez is positive his side will respond at home to Newcastle next weekend.
“We have not got enough points to achieve our aim and I don’t think we can afford to look elsewhere,” he said.
“All the teams, as you know, are going to fight for their lives to get as many points as they can.
“We will do the same. We will concentrate on ourselves and do everything we can to get more than 34 points.
“That is a fantastic return knowing where we were two months ago, but the reality is that it is not going to be enough at this present time.
“We are just concentrating on getting as many as we can from the remaining nine points.
“There are two games at home — one against Newcastle and one against Wolves — and Blackburn away so you can imagine they are very competitive fixtures.
“But we are ready to use every opportunity we have got to get as many points as we can.”
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