Jonas Gutierrez says Alan Shearer has Newcastle United's players confident they can move out of the bottom three.

"We want to lift ourselves from this position," Gutierrez said. "There is still belief. That is important, we have to believe in ourselves because if we don't then it is impossible to do it."

Gutierrez has revealed how Shearer has been working on getting the mentality of players right.

"He tried to work with the heads of the players, to be positive and to think that we can do it," Gutierrez said. "This is very important for us. We have to take this and do it against the five teams we'll play now.

"All the matches for us are going to be very difficult. No team is easy for anybody. We know that we have matches that are very important and that we have to take points."