Wellington Phoenix coach Giancarlo Italiano remains \u201cvery optimistic about the future\u201d and believes his team is close to turning the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Phoenix have lost five of their past six matches to slip seven points adrift of the top six, and host inform Sydney FC at Sky Stadium on Wednesday night.
The Sky Blues are unbeaten in their past five matches and are coming off three-goal wins in their past two matches to rise to sixth on the ladder.
Italiano says there\u2019s no special formula for lifting the team\u2019s spirits when its low on confidence.
\u201cI\u2019m experiencing this for the first time as a head coach,\u201d he told media before training on Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019m learning a lot about myself and the playing group.
\u201cI don\u2019t have a perfect answer for you to say this is going to work, because if it was that easy everyone would be doing it.
\u201cIt\u2019s really going to come down to how hard the group works and rallies behind each other.
\u201cThe reality is not to make any excuses about why we\u2019re here, it\u2019s just about getting on with it.
\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a game where something significant happens, or we need to step up, or we get a bounce of the ball and the confidence comes back flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n