Rafa expecting consistency

Rafa is hoping that the confidence gained from our recent good run will propel us to victory against Man City tomorrow. He feels that we now have the squad to cope with both the Premiership and Europe:

"We are winning more games now with confidence in the league, as well as doing well in the Champions League. The team is stronger, playing well and that give us confidence.
"The most important thing this season is how we have started to play better in more than one competition at the same time.
"We have had good results, but I now want to see how we play at Manchester City, we have to keep going the way we are because talking about things means nothing if you can't do it on the pitch.
"This is a good run we are in, three successive league wins, but we must keep doing the same in the future. Consistency is the most important thing, the players have more confidence but that only stays if you keep winning. The European result in midweek will have further boosted our confidence.
"And that achievement of furthering our involvement in Europe with another clean sheet will send us to Manchester City in the right frame of mind.
"We are better now, stronger with more players and we can handle, I believe, big games in two big tournaments at the same time."

The win against Villa proved that we are able to produce a decent performance on the back of European success. All of our players are now in good form and we are looking like a decent team with a solid backline and a creative attack. The only thing currently below expectations is our finishing. Hopefully this will change once Peter Crouch gets a goal as most chances seem to be falling to him at present.

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