ZAT KNIGHT has warned Wanderers that they must “get serious” if they are to reverse their slump to the bottom of the Premier League pile.
“The last few weeks have been very frustrating,” he told The Bolton News. “Take away the Carling Cup performance and it has been very hard to motivate each other.
“We're at the bottom because we haven't done well enough in the last five games and something has to change.
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Everyone has to be a bit more competitive and take things a bit more seriously. Individually, we need to inherit more responsibility because when you look back at some of the goals we have conceded,
it's been a case of slack defending or someone's runner has gone off them. That's the difference.“We need to get back to being difficult to beat. When you don't win, you don't lose.”
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You have to try and concentrate on the positives, and against Arsenal, that was the first half defending,” 
he said.
“If we can do that against Chelsea at home then maybe we get something out of the game. But it's another big ask. It's one of those games where we have to go all or nothing. We haven't got a game for two weeks. Some of the lads will be out on international duty, others will be resting up.
“We need to go out all guns blazing because we need the points more than anyone else at the moment.”
“The last two times we have played five in midfield and looked strong defensively but sometimes it's the other side, going forward,” he said.
“In the whole game we created two chances, one half-chance and then Chris Eagles on the counter attack. 
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It's definitely not good enough on the attacking side but while we did reasonably well in the first half, we got punished defensively in the second and the sending off killed us as well.
“But it's football and we have to lift ourselves up. We're still only six games into the season.
“I just hope we pick some points up from somewhere because when it comes to Christmas, which is only a few months away, you definitely don't want to be down there.”
