Watford manager Javi Gracia is confident his team can bounce back from their first game of the season.

The Hornets suffered a disappointing result at home against Brighton last weekend.

Including the previous season, Watford have won only two games since March 3.

But Gracia believes the team will show the necessary determination and quality to find their form.

He said to reporters: "If you want you can be positive, if you want you can be negative, but I want to be focused on the truth and the truth is we need to improve. We need to improve many things and we're working on that.

"We're working trying to recover the best things we did in the beginning and trying to improve all the things we can do.

"When we finished against Brighton some asked about the players out of the team, it's not the solution. The main solution is to try to work during the week and to improve with all the players.

"All of them have to improve, even me, I'm the first one. I'm demanding with myself, I have to improve, I know it. But this week I was trying to analyse, trying to prepare as better as possible the next training, the next game and it's the only way I know to improve.

"I think the players are in the same direction, like me. I'm not able to understand this team without that togetherness. I think we need it. We're competing against clubs with more money than us, we're competing against teams with maybe better players than us, better coaches than us, we need that strength as a team, we need it. It's something we need to keep during all the season if we want to achieve our objectives."