STEVE Cotterill has insisted there is no need to push the panic button after watching his side lose two on the spin.

The Burnley boss today admitted it had been a difficult time for the Clarets, watching them lose their unbeaten run at the start of the week and then crashing out of the Carling Cup on Tuesday night.

Both games were at home and neither performance deserved anything more than what they got.

But Cotterill preferred to look on the bright side and took comfort in the fact that his side are sitting seventh in the league and have a chance to leap-frog Crystal Palace if they win on Saturday.

He said: "I can't understand why we've had the long faces for so long, we're doing alright.

"We've had a good start to the season.

"Yes we're going to be disappointed, but there's no-one more disappointed than me that we lost to Wolves and Hartlepool.

"And don't let anyone tell you it hurts them more than me because they don't put as much work into it as I do.

"I'm hurting, but we've got to get on with Crystal Palace, we can't start moping around because we haven't got time.

"We've got to go there and do well."

"There's no time at all to dwell on Tuesday, we've got a big game at Crystal Palace, and our league form has been pretty good so far, so we're reasonably happy with that.

"Obviously we're a little bit disappointed with the Wolves result, but all in all, if someone had given us four games at the start of the season and we had won two, drawn one and lost one, and had a plus goal difference, we would have taken it.

"So it's been pretty good so far."

And just like Cotterill kept his feet on the ground when the Clarets almost reached the top of the league with successive wins against QPR and Leicester, he vowed that two defeats certainly did not equal a crisis at Turf Moor.

He added: "There's plenty of bigger clubs below us that would have given their right arm for the start we've had, so we've got to continue that and not listen to any sort of negative influences from anywhere.

"Okay, in the last two games we haven't been as good as we had been before, and I think you do need reminding how well we've started, and you are reminded when you look at the league table.

"We're okay at the moment, not getting carried away with the last couple of results we've had, like we wouldn't when we were top of the league.

"We were level-headed then and have to make sure we stay that way now."