Gallagher said: "A lot of people are going to say our bubble has burst, but we are still sitting eighth in the league, we are still doing well.

"If people asked at the start of the season where we were going to be in the table, they would probably have said we'd be relegated.

"I don't think the bubble has burst at all. It comes down to a bad run of form and it's up to us to pick ourselves up from it.

"It's just by working hard, like we have done the whole season.

"If you asked us at the start of the season would we think we were going to go the full year without getting a sticky run of results, probably not.

"These things happen in football, it's just how you treat it basically.

"We have to get back to winning ways – scoring goals and keeping clean sheets – and it all comes down to hard work."

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