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It takes a lot to depress the effervescent Danny Welbeck.

Sir Alex Ferguson said last season it wasn’t keeping his spirits up that was a problem it was keeping the bubbly character down.

So when the Mancunian Red is in grim mood you know something serious is up.

The Longsight-born striker is a lifelong United and is finding the champions current bleak predicament hard to take.

“Being a Manchester lad and being a United fan there is extra passion inside me and it does hurt me when I see the team losing,” he says.

“It hurts a lot to see United not winning. How you deal with it must be different for every player. Since I became a first team player at United I haven’t really read much in the papers. I am not on twitter or anything like that.

“I just play my football because I know that nobody is going to change anything except me. It is up to us all on the pitch and the staff to do it.

“It is not the press or anyone else who are going to change this it is ourselves.

“As a team we know on the training pitch we need to put things right. The way we are set up we need to get that right and hope we will gather some momentum again.

“I can understand why fans are concerned. We are not around the Champions league spots at the moment. We need to get our form back and just win the next matches.

“It was very disappointing to go out of the FA Cup against Swansea and we have to rectify that at Old Trafford on Saturday.”

The trio of defeats for the Reds that began the recent lurch into crisis kicked off at Old Trafford on New year’s Day when Spurs won 2-1 in the Premier League.

The Swansea FA Cup exit at home followed last weekend and then the Reds were beaten at Sunderland in the Capital One Cup semi final first leg at the Stadium of Light on Tuesday night to complete seven days of misery.

Welbeck says United now have to put the brakes of that dismal run.

“Losing three on the bounce is really not good enough and we want to put that right,” the 23-year-old added.

“Obviously it was disappointing at Sunderland. It is hard for us to take to come somewhere and go away with nothing.“We could have created a few more chances and had a bit more luck.

“We haven’t had much luck in recent weeks with penalties given and those we thought we should have had but we can’t just look at that. You cannot rely on that to help us. There are no excuses. We have to up our game and our performances as a team.”

Welbeck is mystified about United’s fall from grace.

“I cannot pinpoint one reason why this is happening," he said. "We were champions last season and we know that the consistency in our game has not been good enough.

“It is a new experience for us all but the main thing we have to do is look at the next game. Obviously we have to put it right but you can’t look too far ahead. The next match is the most important.

“It is Swansea at Old Trafford now in the league and we really have to get three points.“It is over 10 years since United lost three games in a row so we know we have to turn it around and win the next match.

“The manager is very upbeat. He lets the players know he wants to do really well and the players also want to win games for United.”