Nigel Pearson believes Watford's togetherness will help them overcome the psychological difficulties that come with being involved in a relegation battle.

The head coach said it was time for his players to start dealing with problems in games and to start creating more opportunities for themselves, if they want to avoid the drop into the Championship.

With a game against the as-of-yet undefeated league leaders Liverpool this evening, Pearson knows things aren't about to get any easier for his team, but still backed his players to use their group strength in order to find the necessary results to keep them in the Premier League this season.

"When a team has been more or less at the bottom all season, psychologically it's really quite difficult," he said.

"There are days that things can feel as though events are conspiring against you. We've got to - and the players are aware of this, we've spoken about it - we have enough games left, we've got the tools, what we've got to do is make things happen ourself and so there are going to be occasions when we're not at our best and things don't go our way, we've just got to be able to deal with it, it's as simple as that really.

"Occasionally you might see signs that body language is a little bit disappointed, but we've got a group of honest players here, so I've got no qualms about giving them my full support and backing. In our situation we need to fight for ourselves and make sure that we show a togetherness that I know is there. I think if you spent time at the training ground, you would see a group of players who get on very well together, they always train really well there, but we need to make our own breaks."

Pearson received praise for the way his team performed at Anfield in the reverse fixture againt Liverpool, despite them ending up on the wrong side of a 2-0 scoreline.

While he enjoyed watching his team play well in that game, the praise came as scant reward for the head coach, who said winning games is now much more important than playing well.

"We're in a results based business, but if we get our performance right more often than not, we've got a better chance of winning games, I think that would be stating the obvious," he said.

"Sometimes you accept that when you win a game, you've found some luck somewhere along the way, but I always stress the importance of us having a positive intent in a game and also for us to be as close to our maximum, regardless of who we're playing. That's what I expect.

"I don't want us to be a side that's playing well and losing every week, we need to find ways of winning games and that's really the top and bottom of it."