is it not the same thing pilko?
No.
If we had say, 10 games left and won 8 of them, you could say we played our way out of trouble.
If, however, we won 2 of those ten games, but still stayed up, you could say "on that form we deserved to go down" but why did we stay up? because the other clubs in and around us lost even more.
And what I'm suggesting is that the second situation is much more likely than the first.