Arsenal News: Hector Bellerin reveals key to beating Middlesbrough
GETTY Hector Bellerin has urged the Arsenal supporters to be united with the players
Arsenal have been in dire form of late, winning just one of their last five Premier League games. The Gunners have slipped to seventh in the table, putting extra pressure on tonight's clash with Middlesbrough at the Riverside (8pm). However, Hector Bellerin has assured fans the players have been working hard to get back to winning ways and has urged supporters not to get on their backs. “In other seasons, we’ve gone through bad patches, but probably not as bad as in this one," Bellerin said.
GETTY Hector Bellerin has claimed the Arsenal players are full of doubt
“You need to learn to deal with people saying bad things about you and you need to learn to deal with stuff that’s not happened before. “It will make me stronger, that’s how I see it. "Some people can be destroyed or collapse but I think I and everyone at the club need to look at it positively. "We just need to do our job on the pitch. We know that fans are angry, we know that people want results because we’re Arsenal and that’s what’s expected from us.
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"But it’s been a long time that we went through a patch like this so we need to make sure that we recover from it. "Trust me, we’re trying as hard as we can. “Everyone is training hard but sometimes when things don’t go your way, it just doesn’t happen for you. "There’s a lot of doubt, we’re not as confident as before but we just need to get ourselves together.
GETTY Hector Bellerin has claimed Arsenal need the fans on side, not against them