"The past will never equal the present and European nights are what football is all about.
"The history and culture of this club is about winning trophies. We are in this competition again, which we won two years ago, and it would be great to win it again.
"We know we are going through a bad patch, but every team goes through setbacks at some stage and it's all about how you handle it.
"The hallmark of a team's character is that you never lose twice in a row and I am a great believer that once you manage to do that you will have a successful team.
"The boys are desperate to get back to winning ways and it looks, in training, as though the bad patch has been overcome."