NEWPORT’S Chris Gunter says Wales have to respond to their latest setback just as they did after losing to England at Euro 2016.

After that match Gunter was famously pictured urging Wales fans to keep their chin up and the team bounced back to reach the last four in France.

Sunday’s 1-1 home draw with lowly Georgia put a dent in the nation’s hopes of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

But Gunter is certain that the team and manager Chris Coleman will again regroup and recover in time for next month’s home qualifier against Serbia.

“We’re obviously disappointed being 1-0 up, we wanted to go on and win the game,” said the Reading defender.

But we will take it and be back here in a few weeks. We need to recover now and move on from it.

“And the fans will obviously be disappointed, they came to watch us win the game – we haven’t done that.

“But our fans are quite knowledgeable people and they will know at this stage, even though we wanted to win the game, there are plenty of points to play for and I don’t think there will be one team that runs away with this group.”

Wales have now slipped from first to third in the Group D table – two points behind Ireland and leaders Serbia after three games. Gunter added: “I think it will go the distance almost and I think we need to make sure that, come the last games, we are in a positon where we are in and around it because we have shown in the past in big pressure situations we can deliver.

“We need to put ourselves in that position.

“We are disappointed but we’ll move on and it’s certainly not the end of the world after three games to be unbeaten and still have so many games to play.”

Coleman called Sunday’s result a “slap around the back of the head” but Gunter says the players know that international football is never easy.

“We as a squad didn’t need a reality check,” he said. “Obviously it’s fantastic the feeling around the squad everywhere but we are a team who don’t get too down when things go against us and we don’t get too high when things ae going well.

“We didn’t need a reality check – we haven’t won a game of football.

“We’ll look at it and we’ll be back next month and looking to win.”