BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes has set his players a target of 65 points in their battle to qualify for the Champions League.

As the race for fourth position hots up, Hughes admits he's already had to revise his total TWICE as the teams around Rovers keep on winning.

Now the Rovers chief reckons his players must win at least four and draw one of their remaining seven games if they are to finish above Tottenham, Arsenal and Bolton Wanderers, their three main rivals for that coveted top four spot.

The Welshman, who's hoping to have Craig Bellamy fit in time for Monday night's game with Wigan, said: "We've got a points total in mind.

"There's a real race for the Champions League and we base our targets on recent seasons.

"The last two seasons it was a certain figure so we geared for that, but we've had to revise it twice since then because of the way the season has started to pan out.

"We've now gone three years back and tried to get an average and we hope that will be enough.

"But I think going on past targets, we might just have to view it on a game to game basis because it could well change every week from now to the end of the season."

Over the last three years, the average points total required to finish fourth was 63 points, but if you go back 10 years to when the Premier League was first reduced to 20 clubs the average works out as 65.5 points.