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One week later we are back to the victories, just to validate the consistency and strength that the team is showing since the season started. Winning against Swansea in the Carabao Cup and Tottenham in the Premier League, in both cases with clean sheets, show what we’ve been saying on this blog every week: this team can compete.

Writing to you after a defeat is rather unusual this season, that’s the truth. We were on a very positive run of results, but this weekend we didn’t play a good game and we came back home with no points. We knew this moment would arrive sooner or later, although that’s something you never wish, of course.

This time I can’t start this post talking about a win, unlike most of the previous weeks this season, but I keep being optimistic and I believe I have reasons for that.

The weeks without a club competition seem a bit too long, don’t they? At least we have had some very exciting games with the national teams involved, and we are starting to know the full list of teams that will make it to the World Cup next summer.

Last Saturday we defeated Crystal Palace and I was able to score my first goal of the season, after several games with a few shots against the woodwork. I scored just three minutes into the game in a big play by Marcus.