SINCE the turn of the New Year - Wanderers have been going backwards in the race to qualify for Europe.

With hopes of Champions League football next season, the club entered 2007 on the back of a five-game winning streak, but a New Year's Day defeat at Anfield heralded a rocky series of results.

They have held on to fifth place thus far, but with teams around them finally starting to gather momentum, it is a question of how long they can remain in contention in this vein of form.

We look how Wanderers' Uefa Cup challenge has hit the rocks since January - and the games they have left to put their bid back on track.

READING: Tottenham (A); Liverpool (H); Charlton (A); Fulham (H); Wanderers (A); Newcastle (H); Watford (H); Blackburn Rovers (A).

EVERTON: Aston Villa (A); Fulham (H); Wanderers (A); Charlton (H); West Ham (A); Manchester Utd (H); Portsmouth (H); Chelsea (A).

BLACKBURN: Manchester Utd (A); Aston Villa (H); Tottenham (A); Watford (H); Fulham (A); Charlton (H); Newcastle (A); Reading (H).

SPURS: Reading (H); Chelsea (A); Wigan (A); Arsenal (H); Middlesbrough (A); Charlton (A); Blackburn (H); Manchester City (H).

WANDERERS: Sheffield United (H); Wigan Ath (A); Everton (H); Arsenal (A); Reading (H); Chelsea (A); West Ham (A); Aston Villa (H).

PORTSMOUTH: Fulham (A); Manchester United (H); Watford (A); Newcastle (H); Aston Villa (A); Liverpool (H); Everton (A); Arsenal (H).