Paul Scharner has urged West Bromwich Albion to retain their self-belief despite suffering their worst Premier League run of the season.
Saturday's home defeat to Manchester United was their fourth in a row and means Roberto Di Matteo's men have now collected just seven points from 11 games after making an excellent start on their top-flight return.
Another loss at Fulham tonight would really leave them in trouble at a time when likely drop candidates West Ham United have started to find some form.
Little wonder Scharner, the Austrian defender, is calling on his teammates to keep their nerve.
"The mental side of the game is even more important now than it has ever been," he said.
"You have to be able to cope with all of the pressure because every small detail on the field matters.
"Everyone in the Premier League is fit enough to compete. They are strong and, most times, they are technically good.
"But there is another dimension. There is another five to 15 per cent that comes from your belief and that can be the difference over the other team."
The Baggies will need all that belief just now as Di Matteo tries to juggle with a growing injury crisis.
In addition to Gabriel Tamas, a defender who must serve the second match of a three-game ban, West Brom are likely to be without fellow defender Pablo Ibanez and Steven Reid, the midfielder, tonight after both men limped out of the United tussle.
The one bit of good news for Albion is the return of Gonzalo Jara, the Chilean defender, from a one-match ban as they prepare to visit a ground where they have not won a league game since 1967.
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Belgian authorities joined French police in banning the threatened blockade. A similar lorry cavalcade was planned for Friday in Vienna but cancelled after authorities prohibited it.
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"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
