Matt Jansen is a former England under-21 international
Goal hero Matt Jansen hopes Wrexham's 2-1 victory at struggling Northwich Victoria can reignite their push for promotion back to Football League.
Ex-Blackburn striker Jansen's goal inspired Dean Saunders' team to their first Blue Square Premier win in seven games at Victoria Stadium on Tuesday.
"The lads are delighted to get a good win after a run of results that haven't gone our way," said Jansen.
"Hopefully we can build on this win and gain some confidence."
Wrexham are eight points and four places outside the Blue Square Premier play-off top five with two games in hand on fifth-placed Stevenage Borough.
Fellow play-off chasers Crawley Town visit The Racecourse on Saturday for a promotion six-pointer.
Then Kidderminster, who are just four points behind Stevenage with two games in hand, travel to Wrexham on Monday in another crucial potential play-off decider.
Oxford United and Kettering, two of the other teams vying with Wrexham for a play-off berth, also have the play Saunders' side.
Former Premier League star Jansen, who has come out of two-year long retirement to sign for old friend Saunders until the end of the season, scored his first goal for four-and-a-half years at Northwich.
Jansen, who hasn't scored since a goal for Blackburn against Birmingham City at Ewood Park in November 2004, said: "You hope you don't lose your goal-scoring knack.
"But you're as only as good as your service and that was good at Northwich.
"Scoring anywhere is a great feeling and it is always good to get your first for a club but I should have scored another one but I struck it too well!
"I had three chances but thankfully one of them went in.
"The fitness is slowly coming back but it will take a while as my legs felt heavy."
Jansen opened his goal account in the 15th minute as he levelled Kyle Perry's opener for relegation-threatened Northwich before Nathan Fairhurst struck Wrexham's winner with 16 minutes remaining.
The former England under-21 international was pleased with his first goal in his second Wrexham start but was more happy with the performance of the whole team.
And the 31-year-old says Wrexham must continue to play football if the Dragons are win promotion back to Football League after just a year in non-league obscurity.
"After our first goal at Northwich, we started to believe," said Jansen.
"We got the ball down to play football - and once we did we caused them all of problems, we must do more of that."
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