YOURI Djorkaeff called on his team-mates to stand up and be counted in Saturday's Premiership survival showdown with West Ham.
The French World Cup winner knows he will have a pivotal part to play in Wanderers' biggest game of the season.
But he said every player has a special responsibility to produce the goods.
Wanderers can open up a six-point gap ahead of the Hammers and virtually sentence Glenn Roeder's team to relegation with victory in the sell-out crunch clash.
Despite West Ham's super run of six games unbeaten Djorkaeff believes his side has what it takes to win the day.
He points to Wanderers' mental strength as well as performance skills and believes their experience of fighting relegation battles could prove crucial.
"We have a good group of players and tomorrow will not be all about myself and Jay-Jay, it will be about everybody," he said.
"If we are to win tomorrow it will not just be because of the quality of Youri Djorkaeff or the performance of the goalkeeper, it will be because of the quality of the group.
"Yes, there is a responsibility on me and I love it. But there is a responsibility on all the players, on the manager, on everybody.
"After bad results we start again and we build again. It is this mentality that you need to stay in the Premier League and we have this mentality.
"We were in this same position last year when we had Ipswich at home and we won.
"We know we must win and we know what we have to do. We beat Ipswich 4-1 but tomorrow 1-0 would be good."
Wanderers are in their form of the season and an indication of their confidence was how frustrated and dejected they were at losing to a single goal defeat at Champions League-chasing Chelsea last week.
They went into that game on the back of three straight victories and clean sheets and it is that upbeat mood which they will take into Saturday's vital clash.
Nobody will be taking the Hammers lightly after their magnificent six-match unbeaten run which has given them a fighting chance of becoming the first team in the Premiership's ten-year history to survive after being bottom at Christmas.
But Djorkaeff believes that, rather than look over their shoulders at the teams below them, Wanderers should be looking to chase the four teams who go into the weekend three points better off than them.
"We are in a better position than West Ham which is good," he said.
"And a victory can get us back with Birmingham and the others who are ahead of us in the league.
"We know we have not just one or two but three teams below us which is good. It is crazy where we are after the way we have played and we should be looking up at teams ahead of us and not down.
"It is a very important game but it is not the end of the season. There can be surprises right to the end.
"Two wins will be enough to keep us up and I think the game against Arsenal could be the biggest if they are playing to win the championship and we are playing to stay in the league."
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