Aston Villa's Gareth Barry: We need big guns to fire
“Sunday was a big game and Arsenal will have been watching, realising that,’’ he added.
“Looking at the bigger picture we’d have still taken it but we are sitting here low on confidence.
“I feel we are one game away from a good performance and turning it around again so we cannot worry about it too much. We have to be positive.
“If you look at the bigger picture, the way the season has gone it will be a disappointment but we are not writing ourselves off.
“If we don’t give ourselves a chance then no-one is. We realise we have to stay positive because what we have achieved already so far we can do again towards the end of the season.”
Barry is well aware that around the turn of the year Villa could not stop winning and now they cannot buy a victory.
“It is about confidence,” he said.
“We have two tough fixtures coming up and if we deliver a performance-of-the-season against one of them, it could catapult us to a good finish.
“The form we are in and the form Liverpool are in, it is two different ends of the scale.
“Hopefully, it can help us as they are on a hiding to nothing and we have nothing to lose.
“We will go there and give it our all and one result could turn it around.
“But we were written off when we lost to Newcastle and Middlesbrough and then produced our performance of the season when we won at Arsenal, so that is something again we can look at.
“If we can produce a similar performance we can still swing it around.”
Barry admits the defeat to Tottenham was deflating.
“It was another big blow to our season. At half-time we were feeling unlucky,’’ hea dded.
“The ball had fallen to their player in the first half whereas earlier in the season it might have gone to a defender.”
