The Serbia captain heads off on international duty having featured in every minute of our first four matches this season, each of which have ended in victory.

Confidence in the camp is understandably high, but Ivanovic is experienced enough to know there are plenty more twists and turns on the horizon.

'Everything at the moment is about confidence,' he said, 'and the games coming up will show us where we are.

'If we want to put this team where it deserves to be, we go day by day and game by game.

'We are playing like a team and we have to be really focused and stay on the ground with both feet.

'There a lot of details that we can improve still and we have to think about that.'

In the win over Burnley on Saturday we scored three goals for the second straight game but, perhaps more significantly, secured a first clean sheet of the campaign.

'We're happy about this and the result. Of course, this is just three games but we improve and we have confidence.

'It was a very hard game for us. We opened very well and when we scored the second goal we were focused on our defence.'

Ivanovic concluded his assessment of the game with words of praise for Eden Hazard, whose ninth-minute goal set us on the way to victory.

'Eden is one of the best players in the world,' he praised. 'When you have him performing like this he is amazing and one of the most important players for our team.

'He is the player who can decide the league, he can decide every game.'