Arsene Wenger has warned Arsenal must not feel they can coast into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup against Wigan on Tuesday night.
The Gunners restored confidence with a 4-2 victory at Aston Villa on Saturday lunchtime, which briefly sent them to the top of the table and went some way to easing the pain of successive defeats by Tottenham and Braga.
Wenger is again set to name a strong squad for Tuesday's match - which could yet be subject to any adverse changes in London's weather - with the likes of Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott and Nicklas Bendtner all in contention.
However, the Arsenal manager insists experience from recent unexpected home defeats to West Brom and Newcastle should serve as a timely reminder against any complacency taking on a team fighting for top-flight survival.
"Knowing how the Premier League is now, one advantage as a manger is you do not have to warn your team because everybody knows how difficult it is to beat everybody," Wenger told Arsenal TV Online.
"We will take Wigan seriously because they are a team which plays good football and has a good philosophy.
"The Premier league is so compact that even from a position of a team in the league you cannot come to any conclusion because if you win two games you are mid-table chasing for Europe. If you lose two games you are struggling not to go down.
"Wigan are always a team that is difficult to beat and in the Carling Cup we expect a difficult game."
Wenger has already shown his intentions not to take the Carling Cup lightly with the squads selected for previous rounds, which returned impressive wins at White Hart Lane and Newcastle.
"The team will be a mixture of experience and youth, as we always do," the Arsenal manager confirmed.
"For me, in my squad the 25 players are the same level or all nearly on the same level, so it is just the form of the day, the sharpness and the fatigue factor that influences my decision."
Van Persie, Bendtner and Walcott were all unused substitutes at Villa Park, where Morocco striker Marouane Chamakh took his tally into double figures and is likely to be rested on Tuesday.
"I have to consider as well our programme, how many games the players play, because for the past six weeks we have played every three days," Wenger confirmed.
"We have had internationals and Champions League, so I will consider the squad as a whole who needs to play and who needs to rest."
Captain Cesc Fabregas (hamstring) is still sidelined, but Wenger hopes the Spain international will be available in "10 more days or two weeks maximum" - perhaps just in time for the trip to Manchester United on December 13.
Centre-half Sebastien Squillaci will also miss Tuesday's quarter-final tie after picking up a slight knee problem in the win over Villa.
Wenger must decide whether to recall fit again goalkeeper Manuel Almunia or keep faith with young Pole Wojciech Szczesny, who made some impressive saves at Newcastle.
Utility man Emmanuel Eboue could make a quick return after being carried off against Braga with what appeared a serious knee injury.
Wenger said: "When we made a scan his knee was swollen, but the ligament was intact so we decided to push him back as quickly as possible and the tests were successful."
Much has been made of Arsenal's failure to deliver a first trophy since 2005.
Wenger, though, stressed he has not put any extra emphasis on any of the Gunners' targets for 2011.
"We go from game to game and we want to do well," the Arsenal manager maintained.
"I said from the start of the season that we want to do well in all the competitions.
"At the moment we are two points from the top in the Premier League, we are in the quarter-final of the Carling Cup, still a good chance to qualify in the Champions League, so we will just go from game to game and do as well as we can in every competition."
