Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino was left delighted after their 1-1 draw at Manchester City.
A late Rodri goal canceled out Chelsea's opener scored by Raheem Sterling.
Pochettino said: "I'm so pleased. I told the players I feel so proud. In the last three games we've started to create a very good spirit. That's the way we want to build our team. Today was a very good opportunity to show we're going where we want.
"The first half was really, really good. We only conceded one chance against a team like Manchester City who, for me, are the best team in the world.
"In the second half they force you to go deep, but we created chances to score the second goal and things could have been different. It's important that the players realise that football is really competitive and to reach the level we want, we need to suffer.
"Now we have a very good game against Liverpool [in the Carabao Cup final]. The most important thing is to keep believing. Now we have to recover and prepare for the game as well as possible."
He also said on changing his defensive setup: "It was in a moment when we needed to try and score the second. I think we decide to not give too much space to them and bring another centre-back on. Playing with a back four they find a good channel and we wanted to try and stop this run. It was difficult because we were not able to score the second goal and they got the goal and the draw."
