Derby County Head Coach Paul Warne is ready to put Saturday's 4-1 defeat to Barnsley behind him when Cheltenham Town visit Pride Park Stadium on Tuesday evening (7:45 kick-off).
The Rams take on the Robins in what is the first of two Sky Bet League One home games this week, with Shrewsbury Town heading to Derbyshire on Saturday, and the Warne is keen for the matches to kick-start yet another positive run for the team.
Speaking to RamsTV ahead of the visit of Cheltenham, Warne reflected on last weekend's loss at Oakwell and looked ahead to an important night under the lights.
On how long defeats stay with him...
Quite a long time.
I watched the game at Barnsley back on Sunday and spoke to all my coaches at length. We watched all the clips back this morning and it was still quite painful.
We try and keep a bit of it away from the lads, but when you do comprehensively lose you have to show them the ugly bits.
I'm a pretty bad loser but I'm not an amazing winner either. Luckily we've got the game on Tuesday night to put it right.
The results and performances stick with you and there's certain disappointments from that game that I just wouldn't expect our team to do.
His thoughts on reflection from Barnsley...
I thought in the first half we were poor and made bad decisions. We brought pressure on to ourselves and making bad decisions and not moving the ball quick enough.
Barnsley's press was really aggressive and I'd expect us as a group to realise that. Sometimes away from home you're not there to entertain all the time, you've just got to turn them and make them defend.
In the second half we were better but we needed that second goal and we had gilt-edged chances to get a second goal and didn't take them.
On a positive, as poor as we were, we had enough chances in the game to get at least a draw.
What's disappointing is away from home, we caused our own problems.
On the chance to put another run together...
That's every game, not just this week. Every time you have a bit of bad news you just have to pick yourself up but we can't keep relying on our home form to get us where we want to be. Regrettably, we've struggled against the top six away from home.
Cheltenham will come here and make it really difficult for us. They made it difficult for us at their place when we won 3-2 in January and the lads will have to start well to shake the demons of the weekend and to try and get something.
We've got Shrewsbury at the weekend too, who are the in-form side in the league, so we need to get back to taking our chances and not causing ourselves our own problems and we should be alright, but football is not always like that.
On the squad's fitness ahead of Tuesday...
We've got James Chester back in training today and Max Bird will probably join in at the end of the week or next week, so I'll have everybody fit.
We're definitely going to need all of our players and this is when it counts the Saturday/Tuesday/Saturday/Tuesday - so we'll have to freshen it up.
