'I don't think Sheffield United are gone'
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Former Blades striker Carl Asaba says Sheffield United's players must shut out any external noise and believe they can survive in the Premier League this season.
United are currently bottom and seven points from safety but recorded their first away win of the season at Luton last weekend.
"For me, if I was one of the players now I wouldn't listen to anyone saying we're gone," he told BBC Radio Sheffield's Blades Heaven podcast.
"If you focus on the outside too much, you're not focusing on your job in hand. You can't control the media, the forums, all you can control is your own performance and you have to give your all to be the best you can be on the pitch.
"I don't think they're gone. I'm one of the people who looks at our team, looks at the performances and thinks if we can knit them together, we are technically as good as most teams. We have the energy of most teams, we have the desire.
"It's making these attributes show up every day - not two of them. In this division you have to have everything. In the Championship you can have the ability and the hunger and sometimes get away without having the work rate.
"This is the top division in Europe, you have to have every attribute on point.
"If they can focus and knit it together of course they can beat Brighton. Brighton will be tough but if we play a perfect game and have a hostile atmosphere we can beat them."