KEVIN Davies is hoping lightning does strike twice against Manchester City on Saturday.

Wanderers carved out a vital victory over Mark Hughes’s billionaires at the Reebok last season at a time when Gary Megson was coming under fire for the club’s poor form in the league.

The 2-0 victory reignited their season, and with the Whites and their manager currently stuck in a similar rut, Davies is hoping the same can happen again.

“We can rewind to last season when we’d had a couple of bad results and then we beat Manchester City at home,” he said. “That result kick-started a month which saw us beat Hull City, Middlesbrough and Sunderland and hopefully that could be the same this time around.

“I said to the boys after Saturday’s game that if we look at the table then we only need a couple of good results and we are back up to mid-table. We are going to go on a decent run sometime and when that happens then the pressure is obviously going to be on a different set of clubs.”

Pressure definitely is on Megson to mastermind a first victory since October, with fans calling for him to be replaced.

But Davies is confident that with home games against City and West Ham to come in the next five days, there is scope to ease the burden on their manager.

“We have got two massive home games and then local derbies away at Wigan and Burnley,” he said.

“I think the games over Christmas are going to shape the second half of our season. It’s crucial that teams at the top of the league get the points, just as it is for clubs at the other end of the table.”

Wanderers’ league game against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium has been confirmed as taking place on Tuesday, January 5.