The Blues boss, who was handed a new two-year contract earlier this week, believes his side can claim a must-win game tomorrow at Shrewsbury Town and help secure their safety.

Chester are just two points above the relegation places with three games remaining,and Davies said: "The law of averages suggests that we should have a fair share of the action tomorrow and in the remainder of our games to come.

"We'll keep going, but in terms of confidence I think it's fairly high, but we do need to make our chances pay and start to put the ball in the back of the net.

"I think there would still be a lot of trouble ahead of us if we hadn't been creating chances or getting in goalscoring positions.

"It would be a concern to me and worrying if we were getting beaten and coming out of games knowing we hadn't performed or created anything.

"But we've been working hard in training and we've been having shooting practice on the training pitch which we need at the moment because we need to be cuter in front of goal."

Davies is acutely aware of Chester's worrying league position, but realises that City would be in an even worse predicament if the season had started at Christmas.

He added: "It could have been far worse for us at this point in the season.

"Thinking back to the Mansfield game when Bobby (Williamson) was in charge, I remember we were 1-0 down, but then came back to win 3-1.

"From that match on I know we haven't picked up too many points, but our performances and our togetherness are a lot better now.

"We know that if we go to Shrewsbury and take a point or three we're almost there, and then we can enjoy the last two games and start to put a different sort of pressure on ourselves, but know that we're in the right league.

"I'm not going to put too much pressure on our guys, but they have to understand that our game tomorrow at Shrewsbury is massive.

"The players will be told how big this match is for the club and they will be provided with all the information they need on Shrewsbury.

"But it's all about us, and if we can go out and create chances like we have been doing in attack, and the defence play their hearts out like they have been doing, then hopefully we can keep a clean sheet.

"It would be ideal if we can win the game with a clean sheet – it is a big game – but we're looking forward to it."

Davies revealed that experienced attacking midfielders Kevin Ellison, Richie Partridge, and Tony Grant would all be in contention for starting places at The New Meadow, but Chris Holroyd was struggling to
be fit.