Following Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Norwich City, we’ve now played seven, have 13 points and are third in the table. Had we won on Saturday we would have been clear in second so it’s not a bad start.
We know we have got to do a bit better at home as you can’t keep relying on winning away like we are. We owe it to the fans as they are selling out every game at the Boleyn and want to see the team win.
I think we’re trying a new style and we’re trying to pass it out of defence more. Sadly, we’ve only been trying it for seven games so you sometimes get errors like we saw on Saturday.
If it had just been humped down the pitch that probably wouldn’t have happened but at the same token we wouldn’t be creating so much down the other end if we did that.
We are still the joint leading scorers of the Premier League and as the system beds in I’m sure we’ll do even better at both ends of the pitch.
I think Dimitri Payet’s pass for Diafra Sakho’s goal was sensational. I love a by-line cross and we didn’t get any last year. Sakho took that goal well and maybe should have scored again, when the rebound came back to Cheikhou Kouyate who couldn’t turn in.
Kouyate then rescued us with the goal at the end. That’s three goals he’s got this season, even though we didn’t buy him to be a goalscorer, so it’s great to see.
I just hope we’re not too overconfident going to Sunderland on Saturday. We saw what happened with Chelsea when only two late goals got them a point at Newcastle. I’m sure Chelsea will have gone there thinking they would win comfortably and that certainly was not the case.
We would have been targeting four points from the Norwich and Sunderland games so we now have to go to Sunderland and try to get another away win.
If we can pull it off, winning four away games on the trot would be an incredible achievement. What’s great is that we’re scoring goals and if you keep scoring goals you’ll end up in a pretty good position.
The fans are certainly getting entertaining football and that’s great to see for everyone connected with the club.