We're in a really good place
I think the biggest things for us is we've been in a really good place with the way that we're defending and pressing, the way that we've been playing forwards with speed and the quality we've had going into attacking situations. We really want to continue that in preparation for the last six games of the season.
In football, it's frustrating when you don't get the points when you're performing well, and that's the bit where you've got to be really measured and consistent within the team, and the emotions that can be attached sometimes.
There's so many things that we are doing well. It's important to highlight those and to keep learning and developing. But there’s a lot of belief and confidence in the team and I think we've got a real clear understanding of what we're trying to do.
You need games to be able to gel and to be able to get those things right, and you can't do that in the first five games of the season when you add such big changes to the squad, so it does take time.
The progress we've made in the last 18 months has been significant. We're in a good place and we want to finish the season strongly.
We've still got the feel-good factor from the Manchester City game
We've come off of the last four games feeling like we've really given everything a good go, a good account of ourselves. I think that naturally rolls itself over into being really keen to play the next game and wanting to get on the pitch.
We're at home, it's a big thing, it's a London derby. There are so many incentives for the game and, when you've got a playing group like this group, you don't need a lot of motivational factors.
You don't really need to talk about a lot of those things. They [the players] just know.