“After the first game against West Ham nobody would have predicted that. After 10 games we are there and that shows we have made some ground up.
“Honestly, I thought it would take much longer – Manchester City won their first five games and it’s still very early in the season.
“Let’s not focus on our position – we have to continue to grow and improve and there are still many aspects in our game we can improve.
“We have to keep the desire, the concentration and the humility and try to play better football. Our results at the moment are more the consequence of team effort, not individuals.”
“We know that to fight at the top we need some goals from set-pieces, between eight and 12 and I believe at the moment we are a bit short, but the fact we did that today will give us the belief that we can score more. It was a good test for the hunger of our players and I feel we played with the right focus and desire.”