Coventry City manager Chris Coleman has urged his players to keep calm as the Sky Blues battle to avoid dropping in to the final relegation spot.
Speaking after the defeat against Stoke on Saturday which saw the Sky Blues throw away points, Coleman said to the CT: "We panicked and that's why we lost the game. "I don't know when the penny is going to drop because that is two weeks running against two physical teams and once we start to try to play them at their game it falls down for us.
"But when we get the ball down and play and make that extra pass, we created chances and they were no real problem to us. In the second half we sat deep, lost our shape, stopped passing and went from back to front too early and that's just panic, and that's the only word I can use. And we don't want to be saying that at this stage.
"We are sat here with three games to go and we are still not in the bottom three, and that's the positive. "The minus is we have to look at the nature in which we have lost the last two games and that's because we haven't had consistency for 90 minutes and because of our situation, the timing of that is not very good at all.
"Some of the things we have seen out on the pitch were desperate because of the situation we are in, but you have just got to keep your head and be brave, and I have said that from day one. "It is not just about going in for tackles, it is keeping your head and keeping your cool and discipline and that mentality for 90 minutes, not 45."