Wolves collected 14 points from their final 10 games of the 2009/10 campaign to avoid the drop with a run of seven points from three away games with Burnley, Aston Villa and West Ham proving crucial.
Now they face a similar challenge, starting with Saturday's home clash with Blackpool. But McCarthy is also hoping luck will turn the way of Wolves during the final part of the season after feeling the rub of the green has not been on their side.
He said: "I don't doubt the players' ability to deal with pressure situations at all. I really don't think for one minute that the pressure is getting to them because they've handled it well.
"But we are going to have to find the performance we found in the latter stages of last season. We're going to have to play as well as we did when we went to Burnley, were solid and won.
"Then we played Villa, were murdered for 15 minutes but in the end were unfortunate not to have won. After that we went to West Ham and we ran riot. They're the performances we're going to have to find now."
Source: PA
Source: PA