Roma coach Rudi Garcia is not going to press the panic button despite red-hot Lazio finally moving past his team into second place in Serie A.
Garcia's squad has gone from being right in the title hunt to third place following rivals Lazio's eighth consecutive victory on Sunday, a 4-0 demolition of Empoli.
Roma only managed a 1-1 draw at Torino to fall one point adrift of Lazio.
"The race continues," Garcia said to the Italian press. "It's not important to be second now, but at the end of the season.
"We have our next game at home, we must win and will then wait to see what the other results are."
Second place is important because it would ensure direct qualification for the Champions League.
More significant for Garcia is that his players, he felt, performed extremely well against a good Torino team.
"It was a good performance," he said. "We just lacked a more positive result.
"We played well and if we continue like this in the next eight games, we'll win many of them.
"We know no team will be able to win all the remaining eight rounds."
Garcia believes his team should have taken all three points against Torino.
"I am happy with the team and the attitude as we were the only ones playing and had 24 shots on goal despite being the away team," he said. "We were unlucky when hitting the post.
"As long as we create chances, that's the important thing.
"The strikers will score eventually.
"We had time to win it and tried our best, but the goalkeeper did well for Torino.
"There are disturbing victories and reassuring draws, this was the latter."
Roma have won just two of their last eight league games and host Atalanta next Sunday, while Lazio travel to Turin to face Serie A leaders Juventus on Saturday.
Source: PA-WIRE
