Friday 3 October 2014 10:07, UK
Sunderland full-back Billy Jones admits the team are desperate to win their first game of the season.
The Black Cats were held to a 0-0 draw at home to Swansea on Saturday - their fifth draw in the Premier league this season.
Jones – signed from West Brom in the summer – said: "That's the Premier League, there are fine margins between winning, drawing or losing and yes, we have been frustrated.
"We obviously want to get that first win and be not the team that is yet to have won in the Premier League.
"Yes, it's frustrating and we have been in every game and played some tough games, and we have shown that togetherness which some of the lads said maybe wasn't there as much last year.
"I have felt that since I came into the club, that togetherness from the backroom staff through to the players, and that's massive in the Premier League.
"If you have got 11 players playing there or thereabouts, you are going to win games. We have shown that and that's going to come."
Sunderland have conceded only six goals in as many league games to date, but they have only scored five, and that statistic is worrying boss Gus Poyet.
Swansea keeper Lukasz Fabianski had to save from Adam Johnson and Santiago Vergini before the break and Sebastian Larsson after it, but he should have been beaten at least once as time ran down with both Connor Wickham and substitute Steven Fletcher missing the targets from headers, the former unmarked from just six yards.
Jones said: "I feel we created the most clear-cut chances with the two headers from great crosses in the second half and on another day, we are talking about a great 1-0 win."
For Jones, who was handed his first league start on the strength of his performance against Stoke in the Capital One Cup midweek, it has been a good few days.
He said: "As a player, you know whether you have played well or whether you have played badly, you don't even need anyone to tell you that at times.
"I knew I had done well in the cup and then for the gaffer to come out and say that, it was a massive confidence-boost going into the game.
"On a personal note, I had some issues last year with my hamstrings, so to get through two games in a week this week, I feel like I have turned a corner and just personally, will become stronger for that."
