As the dust settles on the weekend defeat against Brentford, our first in seven Premier League outings, there is a big Champions League encounter on the near horizon to help sharpen the focus, should any help be needed.

Thomas Tuchel, assessing what is needed now in the build-up to the home leg of our tie against Real Madrid, makes it clear however that despite going into the game on the back of a heavy loss, and facing the Spanish league leaders, there is no need for sudden change.‘We do what do, we don't need special things now,’ states our head coach.‘We need to rely on the things and the trust that we built throughout the whole year.

‘You rely on your routines to refocus, the routines to be strong in training, the routines to focus on the meetings that we have, and to do that in the best way possible.‘I don't think that we will do crazy stuff now and give crazy speeches or whatever. We do what we need to do to prepare the next match as good as possible, it doesn't matter if it's [against] a big name or not such a big name, there are only tough matches out there for us in the last weeks of the season.‘Now we need to do our stuff better, on a higher level, more committed, more mature and we cannot lose concentration for a minute because you can get punished for that in the strongest league. It's very untypical for us but it happened on Saturday.’

How Real Madrid view their next opponents going into the first leg of the quarter-final with a defeat is of little concern to Tuchel.‘A win is always the most helpful to prepare the next match, so now it's a bit harder because we have to digest the big loss,’ he admits.‘We didn't see it coming really, and also not within the match, which is maybe the problem. I didn't see it coming and the players didn't see it coming so I'm involved in it. So we will now find a way to digest it and prepare for Real Madrid, and Real Madrid will do what they want to do with it.’In not finding the net at the weekend, Kai Havertz’s scoring run in the Premier League that had yielded four goals in his previous three appearances, came to an end. Tuchel was still impressed with his centre-forward.‘I felt he was our strongest player. He worked like an animal and he was very dangerous. I'm very happy with his performance.’