Tony Mowbray has insisted that Sunderland are on the right track following back-to-back defeats last week, and with twelve games remaining everything is still all to play for...
UPS AND DOWNS
"We will probably go up and down over the next 12 games. We can potentially lose two or three games, and we can potentially win two or three games. We could drop towards mid-table and think 'oh no', but win two on the bounce and you are back in the top six. That's the league we are in."
CONSISTENT
"The real positive is that we are not scrambling around at the bottom, worrying that if we lose we drop into the bottom three. We have found a level of consistency that has allowed us to pick up points and we have to try and continue that over the remainder of the season and see where it takes us."
PRESSURES
"Without the pressure of 'we must win', in my mind the pressure is there to play well and impose ourselves on the opposition. We can play well and still find a team on a hot day and their strikers take the few chances they get and we lose, or we can go and play a little bit below-par and still score three goals as we did at QPR the other week."
RESULTS BUSINESS
"It's football. It's the nature of the game that the result dictates everything. You were either great or you were terrible, but generally the reality is that you were somewhere in between."
