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"Maybe the disappointment of not being involved in the title race has a knock-on effect.
"Just like last season, once the league was out of our reach we have had a difficult month and let our standards drop.
"But the situation is also the same in that we have another FA Cup final to look forward to. Everyone is fighting for a place and you should see the performance levels start to rise."
About the lack of goals this year:
"It is foreign to everything we have ever done at this club.
"We have always scored lots of goals and conceded a few at the other end.
"I don't just look at the strikers. The whole team is at fault.
"There have not been enough goals from wide areas, midfield or defence and we don't score that many from set-pieces either.
"Maybe we have been a little bit careless at times, although it has not helped that for three or four months of the season we have had three of our strikers injured."