Speaking to the club website, the City boss said: "I think to get a point at Norwich where everybody was saying they were favourites to beat us was very, very pleasing. We're slightly disappointed that although we got a point at Millwall we didn't come away with three points. So we'd say it was a decent start.
"I think this game is the crucial game of the three because of the amount of travelling that we've done. "Travels to East Anglia, South London and now the north west is an awful lot of travelling to do, so we're not concerned too much about the games but it's more the effect of the travelling and the amount of training we're doing at the moment.
"We want to keep the players as fresh as we possibly can but we know it's going to be very, very difficult to do that because of the travelling involved."