Saturday's 2-0 home defeat by Fulham made it eight losses in a row for the Latics, seven of them in the Premier League. They now sit bottom of the table having failed to pick up a single point in either September or October. Wigan's seven-season stay in the top flight appears in serious danger but, having pulled themselves off the bottom and secured safety on the final day of last season, Martinez is not about to start panicking at such an early stage of the campaign. The Spaniard said: "October has been a shocking month for us. I could go from things on the training ground, to suspensions, to injuries, to bad decisions, to hitting the post, and I'm delighted it's the last game in October. "But the experience that we had last season really prepared us for anything in football. We are a young group but I think we're ready. "The players need to forget about winning games, they just need to focus on improving individually. We've got many good options, especially going forward. "We need to see the overall aim. We need to get 40 points, we've got five so we need 35. With the amount of games there are left, there is not a situation where you have to win the next two. "We want to win the next one because of the momentum, the confidence, the belief that you need to stop the negative run, and that's what we need to change." Luck was certainly not on Wigan's side as they dominated proceedings at the DW Stadium but could not find the net, with Victor Moses and Maynor Figueroa both hitting the woodwork. Fulham hit their opponents on the break in the 41st minute to open the scoring through Clint Dempsey before Moussa Dembele wrapped up the points four minutes from time. It was a first away win of the season for the Cottagers and only their second victory of a campaign in which, like Wigan, they have struggled to turn good play into points. Manager Martin Jol said: "Everybody was waiting for a win. If your home record is great you don't have to win all your away games but we played against Wolves and against Newcastle and I felt we were a bit unfortunate, but we didn't score. "We scored one goal when we were 2-0 down against Newcastle, so it was not enough. We had a cushion with the goal (yesterday), and that is what you need. You have to score goals." There was an extra reason to celebrate for Dempsey, who equalled former team-mate Brian McBride's record of most goals scored by an American in the Premier League with his 36th. For the forward, though, it was all about the result, and Dempsey told Fulham's website: "I'm happy we got the points and I'm sure people back home in the States like to see me doing well. "The funny thing is we've played some good football in the last few weeks and not got the results, whereas this time we may not have played our best but we got the points. It's crazy how it works sometimes. "Hopefully we can take some confidence from grinding out a result and keeping a clean sheet. Now we've got to push on." Jol, meanwhile, praised Belgian striker Dembele after he netted his first goal of the season. "I thought Moussa deserved to score, he was terrific," added the Dutchman. "He is so gifted. The next step is for him to score goals. He has all the talent in the world."
