“It’s a very difficult moment for everybody,” he conceded. “We need to be big guys now and show a lot of personality.
“I think we can show more, we need to play more, run more, fight more, everything more. But like I said, it’s a moment, it’s football. We need to work hard in silence.
“I know it’s a difficult moment for the fans as well, but we need to stick together, everybody, to get some points and win the games.
“Last season for me it was the same, and one game can change everything. So we need to focus on our goal, our game, what we can do more, what we need to do more.
“If it’s the training sessions, if it’s the [meeting room], recovery, we don’t need to talk, we need to show it to everybody.
“But I think if you look at the squad, we see a lot of quality, but in the Premier League it’s not about quality, it’s about intensity, it’s about fighting once more and we need to show more. I trust my teammates, we can do it much better and I’m sure we will do much better.”