Sky Blues need to stay positive - Lampard

Frank Lampard's Sky Blues were simply outplayed by Daniel Farke's Leeds

Coventry City boss Frank Lampard insists that is important not to overreact to his side's humbling home defeat by Championship leaders Leeds United.

After winning their previous five games (four of them in the league), City were taught a footballing lesson, beaten by a scoreline of 2-0 which could have been much worse but for the visitors' wasteful finishing.

But Lampard told BBC CWR: "We shouldn't be too negative about it. They deserved to win. Leeds are top of the league for a reason.

"We've played the best team in this league and they've beaten us. When you play a team like Leeds, you just feel you're up against players used to a higher level. Sometimes you have to accept that.

"We've been on a good run but we knew this would be a tough game. You want to carry on winning but Leeds are in a good moment. It's one we have to take on the chin."

Lampard is also encouraged by the imminent return from injury of Ephron Mason-Clark, his star turn in his first few weeks in the job, US international Haji Wright, who is yet to kick a ball for him, and skipper Ben Sheaf.

And he was excited by the impact new signing Matt Grimes made on his debut as a second-half sub.

"We have big players coming back after injury over the next two or three weeks," Lampard added. "Ephron in the next week and Haji and Ben Sheaf in the next two weeks. And we had Matty Grimes come on and show his quality over the final half hour.

"We're not used to losing at the minute. We have to respond and make sure it doesn't have an effect on all our positive momentum.

"Does it change our attitude to what we need to do over the next 15 games? No. There's some things we didn't do brilliantly but we have to accept that nights like this can come. You just have to learn from them."