Mick McDermott is confident Glentoran can arrest the slump that has seen the East Belfast side drop to sixth in the Irish Premiership.
The Glens fell to their third successive league defeat on Boxing Day and it came at the hands of bitter rivals Linfield.
To rub salt in the wounds, the Blues' victory came courtesy of a 90th-minute winner from Eetu Vertainen, a result that helps David Healy's champions jump to second in the table following their own early-season malaise.
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"The pressure is always mounting at Glentoran. Do I think we can stop this slide? Absolutely," McDermott told the BBC.
"We have played 17/18 games, halfway point in the season. We have still conceded the least goals in the league.
"We will pick up points. We still have two or three players coming back from injury in the next couple of weeks.
"It has been a rough month, but every team goes through a rough spell. Hopefully this is ours and we will come out the other side of it, no doubt."
Linfield took the lead from the penalty spot in the 40th minute.
Chris Shields coolly converted from the spot after Vertainen had been brought down inside the area by Paddy McClean.
The Glens drew level in the second half from a Jay Donnelly looping header, and then Vertainen delivered the late heroics with a superb winner in the final minute.
Reflecting on Vertainen's goal, McDermott said: "We should have picked up the loose ball in the centre circle. You can't allow a ball to get headed across the pitch and then hooked on over the top for Vertainen.
"So the defensive shape wasn't right, and then we got caught with a ball over the top so it was really poor defending."
He added: "I don't think we had chances to 'nick it'. We were the only team in the second half who looked like scoring.
"I thought we were the dominant team in the second half, so it wasn't nicking it. I think we were going on to win it."
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