Mehdi Nafti admits Birmingham City's relegation battling is frustrating.

After defeat to Reading, the midfielder told the Birmingham Mail : "It's not that you feel sad, you feel angry. You know what I mean? You're on the bus home and you think '******* hell'.

"Seven games, and we need to win a few to stay up, don't we?

"Can we stay up? What we show on the pitch, I want to tell you 'yes'. It's just like that things are going against us on the pitch. We are not in the bottom three, so it looks like the other teams want us to stay in the Premier League.

"I am confident, but, we need to work. For hours and hours. On set-pieces, sure. Maybe the manager says if someone makes a mistake on set-pieces, I will kill him. I don't know.

"But we need to find a solution as it is six weeks before the end of the season. What we show on the pitch, we have lots of confidence. But we must get the results."