Newcastle United head coach Steve McClaren has insisted that he is the right man to steer the club out of Premier League danger.

The Magpies are 19th in the table, two points adrift of safety, following Saturday's 5-1 hammering at Crystal Palace.

McClaren has come under fire following the team's start to the season, but the former England boss has reiterated that he and his coaching team have what it takes to turn their fortunes around.

"There's no one better than us for that as staff. We have experience of that and know what it takes," he told The Chronicle.

"We have to instil that into the players who we have got. That's all we can do. They are not coping with it very well, either game to game or in the 90 minutes that you play. We have good spells and bad spells. Then we can't recover.

"Character and fight is built in adversity, we're going through it. We need to fight it. Sometimes you'd have to go through adversity."

Newcastle face Liverpool next Sunday.