"There is no basic reason to be alarmist. You have periods like these in a season. I believe this team is strong mentally and will recover from tonight. It's very important that we bounce back now, that's the biggest thing.
"We still need a point to qualify. So nothing has changed from the start of the game."
He refused to single out individuals when probed as to who was responsible for the goals conceded:
"We win and lose as a team. There was not the usual defensive stability and we gave them too much room but I'm not here to say if it was anyone's fault. The most important thing is that we lost to a good team so give credit to Auxerre. They started very well, while we had not recovered from the shock of losing on Saturday."
"We reacted positively in the second half and gave everything but finished jaded physically."