West Brom's Tony Mowbray underlines "insurmountable" target for next set of fixtures

The Baggies tackle top six rivals Blackburn, who are expected to be without Derby-bound boss John Eustace, at The Hawthorns tonight with 15 games of the Championship to go.

Seven points currently separate Albion and Millwall, down in 14th, with the top four some way clear in the distance. Mowbray's troops travel to take on the Lions in London on Saturday.

Mowbray insisted the immediate target was to put together a consistent run of positive results, something Albion have struggled to do since September, to build a gap to those rivals looking to make a break from the middle of the pack.

"All that matters every weekend is the three points and the more you three points you get - not that the next one becomes a free shot - but the next one could be a tougher away game," Mowbray said of building momentum.

"You'd like to win three on the bounce, four on the bounce, but every challenge is tough. Bit by bit you chip away at it and hope to go on a run of six, seven, eight unbeaten - but most of them are wins rather than draws.

"That's what we need to do. Every win is huge in this division. I hope in the next five or 10 games we can create a gap to seventh that becomes insurmountable for the others and they run out of games.

"That's what we will try but we can only do that by winning the next one and the one after. I'm pretty sure somewhere along the line those teams in the middle group striving for the final two play-off places will start to find some consistency.

"We have to make sure we do that and we are not the side who falls away down to 12th."

 Putting together runs of victories has been an Achilles heel of Albion's ever since former boss Carlos Corberan oversaw a flying start to the campaign.

The Baggies have not won back-to-back games since September. October and November brought 10 draws in 11 games and the period since has seen form fluctuate around the change at the helm.

Albion have improved their home record of late but fixtures coming up on the road include clashes at automatic promotion-hunting Leeds and Burnley and Norwich, who are well in the top six hunt.