Valencia coach Ruben Baraja urged calm after defeat at Getafe on Monday night.

In his first game in charge, Baraja saw Valencia lose 1-0 to a late winner scored by Borja Mayoral.

Baraja later said: "I respect opinions, but we think that, through hard work and making the players believe that the situation can be turned around, we can do it.

"Tonight's result does not leave us satisfied in any sense because the team competed and had chances to go ahead with 2 or 3 very clear chances that we didn't take advantage of. That was the difference.

"What I cannot do is assess the situation in the long term. I only think about this moment. We know how difficult the situation is, nobody here has hidden the reality and what is clear is that we need to improve aspects of the game that give us the chance to be closer to winning. Today we did enough to have chances in the game, but we are leaving empty handed. This does not mean that we should think that there is no time to change the situation.

"Nobody has hidden in the analysis of the situation, which is tough and had to be accepted. We arrived with good energy and we felt that the response from the players has been positive in terms of their attitude, in their desire, in staying intense in the game. The difference was that if we had taken the lead we would still be talking about another thing.

"I understand everyone's concern, but I have to focus on the next game. We will try to take the positives from today and with our work in the week lead the players to believe that we can win at home against Real Sociedad."

On the threat of relegation, Baraja urged calm.

He also said, "I understand that you want to give seriousness to the situation, but there are many matchdays to go. We have to assess the situation based on whether the team can translate today's effort into points. The team worked well, they did what we wanted in the game, which was to have chances and to be alive in the game, but the difference was made by their finishing.

"They generated far more from set pieces than they should, but it is difficult for us to deal with set pieces and this is something that we have to work on, evidently. But we have to think only about tomorrow, not beyond that or thinking about hypotheses. I'm not going to waste energy on that."