Newcastle United's Moussa Sissoko has told RMC the players are feeling the pressure ahead of their nail-biting final Premier League game.
With just 90 minutes of the English top-flight season left, Newcastle sit precariously just above the relegation zone, two points clear of Hull City.
If Hull beat Manchester United in Sunday's finale, Newcastle may need more than a point from their home game with West Ham United to survive with their goal difference worse than both Hull's and Sunderland's.
"This weekend, regardless of the way we do it, only the three points count," Sissoko said. "It has been a complicated second half of the season. We're a lot less good than we were in the first half of the season.
"There is a lot of pressure, irritability. We're going to have to put that to one side. We have one match left. We're going to have to win at any cost."
Sucked into the relegation battle after picking up just one point from their last 10 games, Newcastle have been in freefall under John Carver, the interim replacement for Alan Pardew.
Sissoko, who signed a massive six-and-a-half year deal when he moved to north-east England from Toulouse in January 2013, would likely be one of the Newcastle squad eagerly cherry-picked should they go down.
But the France international insisted: "I'm not thinking about that right now."
Jonas Gutierrez has echoed Sissoko's comments. He told the Journal: "I don't have another option than to just think about the game. It's the most important game I have had to play in seven years.
"The good thing is that we play at home and it's in our hands. A few players here know what it's like to go down, and it's not nice for the city, the players and the club.
"We need move forward to the next game and do it for the fans and the city.''