Murphy is confident of securing the club's League One status this season

Carlisle United defender Peter Murphy remains confident his side will survive in League One this season despite them lying only a point above the drop zone.

The Cumbrians, who play Cheltenham on Saturday, are 19th with two games left, but the teams below them all have games in hand and are in action in midweek.

Murphy told BBC Radio Cumbria: "We can't worry about what we can't affect - we'll wait and see what happens.

"We want to win on Saturday but, if we don't, it's not the end of the world."

Only a last-minute equaliser from on-loan Swindon winger Owain Tudor-Jones prevented Carlisle from taking all three points on Saturday.

But Murphy believes he and his team-mates must shrug off that disappointment and show mental toughness going into the last two games of the campaign, with Millwall visitors at Brunton Park on the final day of the season.

"When you're down at the bottom, the luck doesn't go for you and if a goal goes against you players and teams drop their heads," Murphy added.

"You've got to be stronger than that, it's only a game of football, you've got to go again and think 'We only need one goal'."

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