“Let’s just see if we have the quality to maintain this consistency until the end of the season and then we can say, ‘OK, look,” he said. “Overall since October, since the team has gelled, we have lost four games. Against Man City and the three on the trot in January. If you look at the circumstances of the blip in January, it was down to the fact we had no full-backs. I just felt we had two weak periods in the season and you can only afford one.”