Nahki Wells, the Huddersfield Town striker, has shrugged off any concerns of his team being relegated from the Sky Bet Championship this term.

The West Yorkshire club are languishing three places and seven points above the relegation zone in eighteenth place, with ten matches remaining in the season.

However, Wells isn’t pressing the panic button and believes that his team are far better than the statistics suggest.

“I don’t think the word ‘relegation’ has anything to do with us,” Wells said yesterday. “We are playing too good of football and are too good of a team. Relegation is the last thing on any of the players’ minds.

“I still think we can finish mid-table comfortably, and we’re looking to finish mid-table at the worst.”

Wells also shrugged off the critics who have slammed the team for their inability to convert “attractive football” into positive results on a consistent basis.

“We are not too concerned about the critics and what people think and whether or not people are complaining we are playing too good of football and not getting points,” he said.

“The manager [David Wagner] has missed a third of the season and has not been able to implement everything he wants and we have been able to play some fantastic football. Since he’s come in I don’t think statistically anyone has played more attractive football than we have in the entire league.

“We know that you’re not going to be able to win every game. But if you’re doing the right thing and trying to do the right things more often than not you’re going to win — and obviously there’s been a change in our win percentage.

“We would like to be higher, but at the same time it’s a learning curve. We’ve got a small squad and everything can’t go your way. But if we continue to play the way we’re playing, then more often than not we’re going to win. If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’ll pass teams off the park, create chances and win games.”

Huddersfield are fresh off a 3-1 victory at home to Reading on Tuesday night. Wells took his season tally to 15 in the match after receiving some useful advice at the half from Wagner, who replaced Chris Powell in the hot seat last November.

The former Dandy Town man became frustrated with himself after squandering two first-half chances.

“He [Wagner] called me at half-time and said stop stressing over chances that are gone and chances that you’ve missed,” Wells said. “I was frustrated I missed the two opportunities because there’s a high reliance on me to score goals in this team and a high reliance on me to help win us games; I relish that responsibility. I know how games have been this season when we haven’t taken our chances, so I was disappointed in that aspect.

“They were playing a real deep game and were playing for a nil-nil, so I knew what type of game it could be. I thought I might have given up the only chance that might have worked for me, and so that was the disappointing part.”

Wells opened the scoring in the 51st minute after intercepting a back-pass before the floodgates opened for Huddersfield.

“I took his advice on board and applied it in the second half,” Wells said. “I cleared my head, went out there and started fresh, and was in the right place at the right time to take my next opportunity.

“I was glad that I was able to mentally get around the mistakes that happened and move on and take the second or third opportunity that I had in the match.”