Paul Lambert must lift his young Aston Villa side for the tea-time fixture with Chelsea tonight.
Recent steady progress, including a 3-1 win away to Liverpool, was undone on Sunday with an 8-0 hammering at Chelsea.
Villa are just three points above the relegation zone with Lambert determined to get over the Stamford Bridge humiliation.
“You have to bounce back and it’s about how we react,” the former Celtic captain explained. “You can’t dwell on it and start feeling sorry sorry for yourselves.
“As a footballer, if you start feeling sorry for yourselves, there is only one place you are going to go.
“It is important that we try and bounce back very quickly. We just never turned up on Sunday and that is the harsh reality of football. It’s a result that hurts players and fans, absolutely. I don’t think anyone saw that coming,
“If you are on not on your mettle, especially at places like Chelsea, then that is what can happen.”
Lambert added: “You can’t let one game blight what has happened of late. I’ve said all along that I never get too high when I win and I never get too low when we lose.
“We’d been in really fine form since the game at Sunderland a while back now and our only defeats in 11-12 games before Chelsea had been against the two Manchester clubs.
“Fixtures come thick and fast this time of the year and we only have two days to mull over it and have to go again against Tottenham on Wednesday.”
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He’s not in Lenny’s class but hopefully Lambo turns things round