Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal says his players are still in time to turn the season around.
The Red Devil are 12th in the table, eight points from leaders Chelsea, but the Dutchman insists that there is no need to panic ahead of a tricky home game against in-form West Ham United on Saturday.
"I don't think the players have [seen a different side to me this week]," van Gaal said during his press conference.
"I don't think my players are robots - they are human beings and human beings make errors.
"I am also a manager who always wants to evaluate and discuss things. That's the way I do things. I have done it, this week is no different.
"It's happened, it's about overcoming things. It's not a regular occurrence - when you see our figures in the Premier League, apart from this [Leicester] match, then we are defending well.
"The average is conceding less than one goal I think and we have scored a lot of goals. I think we are fifth or sixth [in this situation]. I see it differently to a lot of journalists.
"At this moment this is maybe my toughest job but we have to see in a year.
"We cannot say it about one week with the injuries. As a manager you know already in advance that it's a big challenge. This club is in a transition.
"What you don't know in advance is what the hard moments will be.
"At the start we won all of our games but now we are in difficult circumstances. We should have won last weekend - we had to win when we were 3-1 up. If we had we would have been two points off second place.
"But because of the loss you are now questioning me. If we won then it would have been different. We will overcome things - the season lasts a long time."
