overawed by higher reputation

[adibhoy]

hi guys
im having difficulty taking my team from being good to really good because we keep getting dominated by slightly larger teams that we should be competing with

in my backroom advice meetings my assistant keeps saying that we get "overawed by teams with higher reputation" is there anything i can do to improve this or is it just a case of the team growing in confidence?

 

[Danbo]

More "you can win this game!" prematch talks. Of course you have to be careful with that because it adds to the morale drop if you lose that game.