Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate insists there's no panic after their 3-0 reverse to Schalke.

He told Boro's website: "Normally the first game we play would be against Hartlepool or Darlington behind closed doors at the training ground and nobody would even read about it.

"But we've ended up playing a Champions League team and it's on television. So it was a much bigger game than we would have liked but it was no more than a workout for us, an extension of our training sessions.

"We've done a lot of running and heavy physical work but not a lot of sharp stuff. We were pretty much as I expected at this stage against a team that were much more experienced than us.

"We're now just under two weeks into training and Yak and Tuncay have only been with us for a few days."