Chippa United might have picked up four points from their last two matches but caretaker coach Mich d'Avray insists the Port Elizabeth club are not yet out of danger of dropping out of the top flight.

United sit six points above the relegation zone with four games to play but D'Avray believes they have no time to relax with key encounters to come in the closing 10 days of the league season, starting next week.

"We are still not safe. If I look at AmaZulu's remaining programme then I think they'll survive even if they are currently at the bottom of the log," D'Avray said yesterday.

"I think Free State Stars are also trying their hardest to stay up, so nothing is yet settled."

D'Avray, who won the league and cup double with Cape Town Spurs 20 years ago, is standing in for suspended Ernst Middendorp.

In his first two games in charge, D'Avray has seen the club beat Moroka Swallows 1-0 at home last week and get a vital away point at higher-placed Bidvest Wits on Saturday.

The win over Swallows was the first for the Chilli Boyz since November and came as a major relief to the club.

United will, like most of the other Premier Soccer League clubs, play their last four league games in a 10-day spell, starting with a home game against Bloemfontein Celtic at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium today.

"The key for us will be keeping our key players fit. The players will take strain playing so many games so quickly and with so much at stake," the coach added,

Already D'Avray has to contend with the absence of striker Edward Manqele from training this week, after he suffered a dead leg in the game against Swallows in which he got the only goal.

Also injured is Siyabulela Shai and William Thwala.

But D'Avray has been delighted with the response from the players since taking over.

"There is a togetherness. Over the last two games I don't think any coach could have asked for more."