Alan Pardew: "We go into the international break unbeaten. I genuinely think that our points total suggests we're kind of in no-man's land really. How good are we going to be?
"I think that's a question that will be answered at Wolves if we can get a result. Perhaps the question goes to Tottenham, one of the top teams at home.
"How are we going to perform? Did we match them? Did we get lucky and get a win? Or did we actually dominate the game and were unlucky not to win?
"I honestly can't tell you how good we are. The signs that I'm getting suggest that we're a good side.
"I think we're a little bit more vulnerable. Last year we were a functional team who could get results. We could get goals at set-plays. We could eke out a result.
"This team is more about rhythm. And there's more things that can go wrong. Two or three lose confidence and it might not look the same.
"So it's different. We've got all those battles to come. When we go down to ten men, can we still nick a result?
"When things are really going against us - a penalty decision that was never a penalty, another goal straight after and we're 2-0 down - how are we going to react?
"These are all different types of scenarios that could go wrong for us and that's something we've got to make sure we can deal with."