An imortant three points today will trigger belief

The game today has taken on added importance after yesterday's results. The second defeat for Liverpool in a row, the first time that has happened since December 2013, will have people questioning them and heap pressure on them after what happened to us last year. Seeds of doubt can be damaging things.

Manchester United face a tricky tie at Leicester City where a win would see them move to 8 points, we currently have 7. Manchester City face Chelsea at home, the teams have 7 points and 12 points respectively so there is an opportunity to boost not only our standing but our confidence today.

A win and 3 points could take us up to third place and put 4 points between ourselves and Liverpool, one of our challengers for a top 4 slot. The psychological boost that would give the team and the supporters can not be underestimated. Everyone performs better when they are happy and nothing makes people happy like winning, it vindicates everything you are doing.

We have a new boss, nobody knows if he is the right man, h seems to be from everything I see and hear. He is working on the defence and wants the side to be more clinical, specifically the front four to be more clinical. Unlucky doesn't win you points, the ball in the back of the net does so finding the consistency to score more than 2 goals makes us an added threat.

If you are playing a side who score 3 or 4 goals regularly there is added worry, there is that little negative thought that you don't want to receive a hammering. Just think of the Games against Manchester City and Liverpool last season, who both scored over 100 goals to our 50 odd, there was apprehension and negativity that what did happen, could happen. We need sides feeling that way about us, we need the shoe on the other foot, being clinical does that.

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Fans are a fickle bunch and a weekend win makes a huge difference to their mood for the following week. It's a sunny day, a day to be happy, a happy result would round that off nicely. Three points to keep us above Manchester United, above Liverpool and take us above Arsenal. For fans that's a great feeling, for players it's like a silent pat on the back. To the rest of the Premier League it just says Tottenham are better than we thought. Look at Southampton, who is talking about them as relegation candidates now? That mood has changed after 5 games and the belief is back.

Belief is everything in sport, games are won and lost in the head, a player with belief will out perform a player with doubt. There were many positives to take from the Sunderland game but we only secured one point that felt was like a loss, getting three points today and sitting third in the table will give the club a lift.

There is nothing like being in the top four to believe you can finish in the top four. That belief feeds itself, so with a new head coach, to be sat in third after 5 games will just say to everyone, yes we can do this, we can finish in the top four if we work at this.

When the players lose belief in a manager their performances drop, when they have belief they improve, today is a day to add to that belief, give it a boost.

COYS