“I’m not by any means saying we’re going to win every game, but in terms of getting distracted, getting carried away by external noise and letting other people influence what we should think or feel, I don’t get much sense of that in the group.
“I think we showed that after the Cardiff game pretty well and hopefully we’ll continue to show that.
“As I say, it doesn’t guarantee performances or points, but our mindset is going out to perform as well as we possibly can in each game.
“The games are going to come thick and fast. We have five in 15 days. Each game is a real challenge for different reasons.
“We have Blackburn first-up straight after an international break. Everything that brings with a team away from home fighting for points.
“Then we have Southampton, we have Norwich, we have Watford and Middlesbrough. Really, every game is tough, every game is difficult, challenging and exciting enough to garner our full attention.
“So I’m really confident in the group’s ability to stay focused on our processes, stay focused on the performance and not worrying about anything else externally that we can’t control.
“That’s the way it’s always been and it’s the way it has to be. We can’t afford to take our eye off the next game. Blackburn is going to be a really difficult game.
“They’ve got good players and a lot more Championship experience in the last few years than us. We’d be foolish to look anything past that.
“Of course, when you have five games in 15 days, you might have to plan rotation in certain games or plan ahead in terms of tactically what players will suit what types of opposition or what style of games.
“But in terms of importance of games or difficulty of games, I think it’s impossible and unnecessary to make any distinctions at this stage of the year.”
