“We are now in a situation where we have five games left. Hull haven’t won today. That’s a bonus, but it’s also a missed opportunity because we would have been out of the bottom three if we had won.
“Mathematically it is out of our hands, but what is in our hands is the next game at home against Stoke. I believe you can say now that that’s a must-win game.
“I think we need to win three of the five games we have left. Who knows if that will be enough – it’s possible it won’t be.
“But I believe we can win three games. We won four out of six at one stage so why can’t we win three out of five?”
When quizzed on how his side performed defensively, Clement noted that for the large part of the game, his side defended well, and despite Alfie Mawson’s costly error, it was no excuse to come away from the game with nothing.
“It’s clear the goal was an individual error and it came at a bad moment for us.
“That’s not something you would expect from one of your central defenders in that area of the pitch.
“But we still had time to get something out of the game. I made some changes in the second half to get more offensive players higher up the pitch.
“We got enough balls into the final third of the pitch, but it was the final thing that was missing. We didn’t put in enough good quality crosses and we didn’t show enough accuracy or quality with the balls that were in and around the front of their box.”
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