Monday 30 November 2015 10:51, UK
Tyrone Mings is confident Bournemouth will stay up this season despite them slipping into the Premier League bottom three earlier this month.
Mings is one of three Cherries players currently recovering from bad injuries sustained early in the season, with Max Gradel and Callum Wilson also sidelined.
Gradel and Wilson have both damaged anterior crucitiate ligaments while Mings, who was the club's record signing when he moved for £7m from Ipswich in the summer, is unlikely to play again this season after injuring his knee six minutes into his debut.
Bournemouth are without a league win since they beat Sunderland on September 19, a run of form which has seem them slide into the relegation places.
But despite that sequence - and the injury absences - Mings is confident Bournemouth will not be a one-season wonder in the Premier League.
"We've absolutely got enough about us as a group in terms of our mentality and our positivity," he told Sky Sports News HQ. "We've got a very fit group and that will pay dividends in the second half of the season.
"The performances have spoken for themselves. It's not like we haven't been creating chances or defending badly.
"It's all been positive and I think we'll be absolutely fine."
No Premier League club currently has more injuries than Bournemouth, who are without 11 senior players going into December.
As well as being without Mings, Gradel and Wilson, manager Eddie Howe is also unable to call on the services of his club captain Tommy Elphick, goalkeeper Artur Boruc and experienced midfielder Marc Pugh.
Mings says the presence of so many other players in the treatment room has been something of a benefit to him but admits this has been a difficult period of his career.
"It's been a tough time but in a bizarre sort of way there have been other people to lean on and bounce ideas off," he said.
"If one person is a further ahead then you want to get to that stage and we've been dragging each other along."
