Gillingham's Scott Kashket says self-belief is vital to improve form for League 2 strugglers

Gillingham forward Scott Kashket believes the players need to keep backing themselves to turn their season around.

A run of five League 2 games without a win has seen the Gills fall back into the bottom five.

Frustration is the name of the game for Kashket but he believes they aren’t that far away from a change in fortune.

“The biggest thing is how frustrated you feel,” said Kashket. “It’s not like people aren’t working hard, we’re running ourselves into the ground and it’s not enough.

“It’s finding that formula which is going to get us over the line. We’ve had it a couple of times this year but it’s not enough.

“The changing room is a great group of boys, people aren’t sitting there slating each other. If it’s an individual constantly messing up you [can get them out of the side] but it’s not that. That’s the frustrating thing.

“It could be as little as not getting the ball in the box enough. Do we get the ball in the box enough? Do we maintain attacks? If we don’t score goals, we have to keep a clean sheet but you can’t ask the defence to keep a clean sheet every game.

“Everyone knows their game. When things aren’t going your way maybe you think a little differently but you have to trust yourself, do the things that you know work.

“That’s the hard bit when the goals aren’t going in, to stay positive and not want it too much.

“You look at the table, see the teams we’ve played against and you know on another day we’re beating them. You’re thinking why on earth is there such a big gap? The reason is because we’re not taking our chances and they’re taking theirs - it’s as simple as that.

“As a team I don’t think we create enough chances but when we do we have to take them.”

The 26-year-old former Leyton Orient and Wycombe