Joe Allen

It's football that happens.

We're not going to feel sorry for ourselves and make excuses, I think.

38 games at the end of the season and from our point of view it's about getting the points we need and get ourselves out of trouble hopefully with a few games to spare.

Yeah, we've worked hard day in, day out to improve all aspects, but certainly defensively that's been our Achilles heel as a team, I suppose, this season.

Yeah, definitely improved.

So, as I said earlier, the signs from our general play is encouraging.

We've got to make sure that we get those points, so that's what it's all about.

Well played today.

Thank you.

I think the biggest thing was the chances we created.

We managed to get three goals, but hit the woodwork three times as well.

So can't ask much more than that in a Premier League game.

It's a few things.

I don't like to make too many excuses, but I think that the fixture list we had at the start, we came in for some tough games.

The performances weren't as bad as maybe it was made out, but we were shipping too many goals.

We've managed to tighten that up and I think we look much more of a threat going the other way as well.

So we had the confidence that it would turn around and thankfully it's worked out that way.

Yeah, it's a bit of a goal drought to be honest, two games now, no goals, so a bit of a shame but there we are, got the win and that's the main thing.

Only sparingly really.

Now and again I've been asked to play that role if you like but I've never had a run of games in that position so I'm slowly getting the hang of it.