After four defeats in five Premier League games, Aston Villa winger Marc Albrighton has admitted the club are in "a bit of a mess." The Midlanders have slumped to 15th and just four points above the relegation zone, but the 21 year old knows what is required in the battle against the drop.
"We have to look at it and think 'yeah, it is'. The table doesn't lie.
"Against a lot of teams we've played well and created chances, but we've not tucked them away, and we've leaked goals at the back we probably shouldn't have.
"That's why we are down there. If you don't win games then you are going to be down there, and we have to do something about that.
"It's going to be tough to get out of it, but there's nobody who can put that right other than the players.
"We just have to stick together as a group and hopefully we'll pull something out of the bag.
"We've got ourselves in a bit of a mess, and we just need to pull together to get ourselves out of it.
"We have to move on. It's been a bad run, but there is nothing we can do about it now, we just have to look to the next game and hope to pick something up.
"The next two games are obviously massive, but then every game we play from now until the end of the season is going to be like that."
"We know we've quality in the dressing room," added Albrighton.
"The older players have to play a part, but then there's nobody out there who doesn't deserve to be playing, so everybody on that pitch needs to pull their weight.
"We can't pass responsibility. Every one of us has to take on that responsibility.
"Against Manchester City we just have to pull our socks up and get stuck in again.
"We're going there with not a lot to lose. People are going to be expecting us to get done over, but from our point of view, we are going there to win a football game.
"No matter who is in front of us, it's 11 v 11 out on the pitch, and we have to win this game."
