FRANK Lampard admits Coventry City must think about how they move forward following a 2-0 defeat against league leaders Leeds United.
Lampard lost at home for the first time as Sky Blues head coach as goals from Joel Piroe and Jayden Bogle ended City’s four-game winning run.
And Lampard insists his side must respond to the setback ahead of hosting Ipswich Town in the FA Cup fourth round at the Coventry Building Society Arena this weekend.
Lampard said: “We’re not used to losing at the minute, so it’s important that we respond in the right way and accept that fact.
“It was a tough night, but those nights do come, and we have to make sure it doesn’t stop our positive momentum.
“That’s the important challenge out of it. I’m not so worried about the football aspects of it, we have to think how we move forward now.
“We’ve got players coming back from injury hopefully in the next two or three weeks, big players for us, which will change the feeling of our squad.”
The visitors broke the deadlock on 17 minutes when Manor Solomon played in Piroe who produced a clinical finish into the bottom right corner.
And Leeds doubled their lead on 26 minutes when a howler from Oliver Dovin saw the Coventry goalkeeper spill the ball into the defender’s path who finished into an empty net.
The result leaves the Sky Blues 11th in the Championship table, three points outside of the play-off places.
And Lampard admits City showed too much respect to the visitors but hopes the defeat does not knock his side’s confidence.
Lampard added: “We were probably a little bit respectful, and we couldn’t really get up to them as much as we wanted to, and we gave them a bit of control and then the goals are obviously disappointing.
“We played the best team in the league as it stands, they’ve beaten us, is that a good reminder for us, yes and we do need to respond quickly, yes.
“We’ve changed a lot in the way we’re trying to play and defend and this is something we don’t want to knock us back.
“We can look back at it and individually could we do that better, could we do this, yes, but in terms of what we’re doing, we have to keep going in the same way and accept nights like this can come and they’re not nice, but it’s a reality.”
Coventry host Ipswich in the FA Cup on Saturday, February 8 with kick-off at 3pm at the CBS Arena.
