No shortage of effort in 'hard' winless run - Mayo

Kilmarnock defender Lewis Mayo insists the squad believe they can emerge from a nine-game winless run in the Scottish Premiership and avoid relegation trouble.

The 3-0 home defeat to Rangers last weekend leaves the Ayrshire 10th in the table with just two points from the last 27 available.

Stuart Kettlewell's side travel to face Aberdeen on Sunday looking for their first victory since the start of October.

"Our dressing room is not short of any fight or effort," Mayo said.

"You can see that from the games. I think it is a case of keeping our composure at times and sticking to what we believe in and pulling together that we are going to change this.

"I think game management can help us a lot. You look at the run of results we've been on, the amount of games we've either been in the game or been close and a five or 10-minute spell has killed us.

"Or we've been on the front foot and then a goal has killed us and then we've got a mountain to climb."

Kilmarnock failed to build on successive draws, including a positive point gained against league leaders Hearts at Tynecastle, against Rangers and are now looking to avoid a 10th game in a row without a win.

"It is hard but I think no one else is going to feel sorry for us and we are the ones that are going to need to fix it," Mayo added.

I think even the Hearts game as a reference, we didn't get the points we wanted but the feeling coming away from that, everyone feels better and everyone feels more positive going forward.

"I think it's an honest bunch. We feel like we can see what's going wrong and I think everyone just wants to fix it as soon as possible. Going into a busy schedule, hopefully that can be a positive for us that we can go on a run."