Arsenal midfielder Georgia Stanway has backed manager Renee Slegers and the team to turn around their "tough" start to the season, believing it is only "fine margins" holding the team back.
The Gunners have had a dismal start to the season, picking up just five points from their first four matches. They dropped points to Manchester United and Crystal Palace before a bruising 1-0 loss to Chelsea on Sunday, Arsenal are seven points off holders Manchester City, who they face on the weekend.
The Gunners have scored just two goals this season, with all of their attacking options seemingly out-of-form and struggling with their final touch. The team's current conversion rate is 2.5%, the lowest in the league since Yeovil Town were a professional outfit in 2017-18.
Stanway said that she does not think the club are suffering a crisis of confidence, but are missing the fine margins that has led to their dip in form.
"I would say [a lack of confidence] is a bit of a myth. Based on the level of training and the standard, the intensity, I'd say that the confidence is there, it's just a matter of us being able to do it at the weekend," she said in a news conference on Tuesday.
"That comes from us taking responsibility for our own actions. At the moment, I do really believe it's fine margins and there is confidence within that dressing room downstairs, there's a lot of belief and there's also a lot of motivation.
"We're constantly battling to find solutions, to find ways in which we can challenge the opposition, create chances in the final third. Communication is the most important, I think that can really lift the energy, it can get people talking, it's not about dwelling on what's just happened, it's about speaking to each other, building those connections and bringing the energy within the room."
Stanway did not second-guess her decision to move from Bayern Munich to north London and backed manager Slegers and the coaching staff to help turn around their poor start to the season.
"Even though it's been a tough couple of weeks, I wouldn't change any part of what this week's been part of," she said.
"Renee, the team, there's 50 people in and out of this building every single day and everybody's taking responsibility for themselves. I think that will only be us in good stead going forward.
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"I'm a big believer of the fact that when it clicks, I think it will really click. I'm also a massive believer in the relationships that you build off the pitch helping on the pitch and we'll continue to do that."
Arsenal have a chance to quell the noise around their tactical and goal scoring issues when they face Paris FC in the Champions League on Wednesday.
"We've spent the last two days putting ourselves in the best possible position to be ready to fight tomorrow, be ready tactically and technically, be better than them and that is exactly what we're going to try and execute," Stanway said.
The club then face Man City on Sunday where a loss could be catastrophic and rule Arsenal completely out of the title race.
