Dan Bentley insists there's no panicking at Brentford's failure to record a league win so far as performances are far better than results suggest.
The Bees have three defeats and three draws from their opening six league games and sit second bottom of the Championship table, but have not got the rewards their efforts have deserved.
All of which has convinced keeper Bentley that there is little wrong besides needing a bit more luck going their way, and that self-belief will see them come through a tricky start to the campaign.
“It's difficult to put your finger on – if we knew what was wrong we'd be here with maximum points – a little bit of luck is probably needed,” said Bentley.
“If you look at the scale of the performances across the season so far I think they have been good, but the results have not matched the performances. It's not so much stuff going wrong, more that things aren't going as right as they could.
“We're not at panic stations by any stretch though. There's a belief in how we play and a belief in each other as players. There's a belief in the manager and staff – he believes in us and we believe in him.
“The results have not been what we wanted but he appreciates the way we've been playing – it's not like it's been horrific and we've been slaughtered every week. The performance have been good, we just need that rub of the green, and I'm sure once we get that first win we'll go and get many more.”
Although that opening victory remains elusive, results have at least shown a slight improvement as the Bees followed a goalless draw at home to an impressive Wolves side before the international break with the same result at big-spending Aston Villa on Saturday.
“We started off with some losses but now we've got two clean sheets and two points from the last two,” said Bentley. “Wolves and Villa are very good teams, and on another occasion we would have taken the three points today because we had the lion's share of chances.
“Clean sheet-wise it was a really resilient performance, and for periods of the game I thought we were the better side. A team with the quality of Villa are going to have spells when they're going to be on top, but I thought we weathered the storm very well for the majority.
“We want and need a win, but nobody is sitting in the changing room downhearted or thinking it's a disappointing result because it's not. It's a difficult place to play and their fans can be quite hostile at times, but on the scale of the entire game we should probably have had the three points.”
