Tottenham ace Gareth Bale insists they're not on the slide.

Recent results has Spurs battling to keep hold of third place.

"It's annoying, more than anything else," Bale told the Observer.

"It's not a crisis, just a blip. We're third-top, not third-bottom, and the manager has full confidence in us. He's not slaughtering us in the dressing room after we've lost to Manchester United or Everton. He knows we might have won both games, it was that tight, and it will go our way again.

"These have been high-profile matches against teams up there, so people will make a lot of the losses, but it won't take a lot to turn it round. Just a bit of luck. We're a young team who are still growing up together, progressing together. Even with recent results this is still an exciting time and, if we keep building on what we have, who knows what we could achieve in the future?"