Leicester City defender Zak Whitbread believes his side are still well in with a chance of automatic promotion despite their recent run of results.
Their 1-0 defeat to Cardiff on Saturday saw them fall 10 points behind the league leaders and seven points behind second-place Hull. But City have the chance to make inroads on the gap between them and the Tigers today.
Whitbread is no stranger to this situation, having achieved back-to-back promotions with Norwich. While in League One, Norwich were more than 10 points behind league leaders Leeds at the end of December before going on to win the division.
"I've been in a lot worse positions half-way through the season than we are now, and we've gone on to win the league by 15 points," said Whitbread. "We are still in there massively, you look at teams like Reading last year and they went on a great run.
"It's not going our way at the minute and we will work at the things we can affect and we will kick on.
"It helps knowing personally in situations like this that it is never over. At Norwich when we went up (to the Premier League), we were never running away with it in the top two spaces. Around this stage, I think we were not too far off."
