West Ham midfielder Junior Stanislas insists under-pressure boss Avram Grant has the full support of the players.
Grant was reportedly told this week he had to win one of his next three games to avoid the sack before the new year.
"Everyone's fully behind him," said Stanislas, who grabbed West Ham's late equaliser in Saturday's 1-1 draw against Blackburn at Ewood Park.
"Everyone's been pulling together. We're just trying to stick together and get out of it. The belief is there."
Stanislas's 78th-minute leveller was no more than West Ham deserved for a spirited, if unspectacular, display against a Blackburn side led by caretaker manager Steve Kean for the first time following Sam Allardyce's dismissal on Monday.
The draw left West Ham three points adrift of safety at the bottom of the table having played a game more Wigan and Wolves, who occupy the other two relegation places.
It means Grant's side will be bottom of the table over Christmas, a position from which only one club in the last 18 seasons has escaped relegation - West Brom in 2005.
"People might think that because we're bottom of the league it's not the best," added Stanislas. "It doesn't sound good [to be bottom of the table at Christmas] but obviously the belief has to be there and it is there.
Boss Grant hails West Ham spirit
"If we want to get out of it we've got to all pull together in one direction and that's what we're looking to do to get out of it."
Meanwhile Grant sought solace in the positives from his side's Ewood Park display, saying: "I think we deserved three points today. We created chances, we created half-chances, we hit the post. I was very impressed by the spirit of the boys. They gave everything.
"With all the problems, needing to change the team at the last moment, we fought and we almost won. We were the better side and I liked it very much because I know top teams who miss two or three players and they have a problem."
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