Preston North End boss Graham Alexander
- Published16 minutes ago
Preston North End will have to regain their form in stages as they aim to move up the Championship table, boss Graham Alexander has said.
The Lilywhites have won just once in 90 minutes in all competitions this season and are six points adrift of the safety line.
They face Sheffield United on Tuesday having picked up just two points from a possible 24 since their most recent victory.
"Confidence is low without a shadow of a doubt. But I think it'd be a strange thing if I said the players are really confident in everything because it's a results-based business," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"We want to win. The players train to win every single day. We're not doing that consistently but you can still make a choice to think differently and think positively.
"If you look at the the West Brom performance, that didn't come from a basis of confidence because we had no confidence going into that game from winning games.
"Bit by bit, inch by inch, you get that that good feeling back and that's what we're going to have to do again."
Preston's solitary win this season came at home in a Lancashire derby against Blackburn, and Alexander is aware of how important their form at Deepdale needs to be.
"I've had a conversation with people about the success of the teams in the past here at Preston which has been based on really positive form at home over the course of the season.
"That's something that's not been the case for a while so hopefully the performance last Saturday was something we can build on if we want to be a successful team and a team that wins games.
"Deepdale is a place where we make it the bedrock of that sort of performance base."
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