Bournemouth defender Nathan Ake has revealed that the Cherries have "had a lot of meetings" in a bid to determine why their form has tailed off in recent months.

Eddie Howe's side have only won one of their last 10 Premier League matches, which has left them just six points clear of the bottom three.

Ake has insisted that there is no problem with the "mentality" of the players, but the centre-back has admitted that his team have been untidy in possession of the ball during a difficult period.

"It's hard to explain [poor form], I think we are trying to find out ourselves as well," Ake told Sky Sports News. "We've had a lot of meetings trying to work out why it's not happening at the moment. I don't think it's our mentality because in a lot of games we've come back from late and we are always trying to perform.

"I think the performances haven't been great, on the ball we haven't been great, we are a footballing team, but we haven't really showed that in the last games. We're looking at it, and trying to do well in training, I think we are training really well, but it hasn't come out in the games yet.

"We still have the same hunger to finish as high as possible but also look at the clips and look at games where we haven't performed and try and show us what we should do better. I think we are doing that in training, but it's just about bringing it out in games now."

Bournemouth will welcome Swansea City to the Vitality Stadium on Saturday afternoon.