There are 18 league points still up for grabs, starting with the visit of Manchester United today. A trip to Brighton follows quickly after that, before we finish the campaign with matches against Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Tottenham and Sunderland.

In what is a tightly contested Premier League table – just seven points separate fifth and 11th at the start of the weekend – Rosenior knows there is little margin for error. And he feels his team have the potential to go on a winning run and ensure we finish the season in the top five.

‘That's the great thing about the quality we have in this team,’ he said.

‘We're capable of a run, but capability is one thing and producing it is another. Time is running out, so we need to be as close to perfect as possible in every aspect of the game.

‘If we do that, we have the potential to win every game for the rest of the season.’

When times get tough, as they have been in recent weeks with five defeats in our past six games in all competitions, Rosenior returns to his core principles: ‘simplicity, hard work and humility’.

It is those values he wants to see his side demonstrate as we seek to get back to winning ways.

‘When the team was its best with players like John [Terry], Frank [Lampard], Didier [Drogba], it was a team of big personalities fighting for the shirt, not a team of egos,’ Rosenior explained.

‘I feel we have those kinds of characters in our squad, and that’s what we need to show in this moment.’