RONNY Deila today insisted his Celtic players would learn from the mistakes of their agonising Champions League exit - and avoid a repeat in the Europa League.

Deila believed his players had looked “scared” and “stressed” during the 2-0 defeat to the Swedish champions in the Swedbank Stadium on Tuesday evening.

But the Norwegian, whose side will now go into the draw for the group stages of the Europa League in Monaco tomorrow afternoon, reckons they can do better in the future.

He said: “The pressure to get into the Champions League is something we have to deal with. In Malmo, we didn’t handle that very well as a team. On the night as a team, we weren’t good enough.

“That’s why we must learn. That’s what we have to look at and we have to evaluate it and see what we can do differently, individually and as a team. I ask myself what can be done to make sure we are not as stressed as the team was on Tuesday.

“It’s important, but everything you learn through experience. The best players will learn. This is a very disappointed group but it’s happened now. All we can do is try to learn something from what has happened.”

Deila added: “I think we learn all the time. I think we have progressed as a team, but in Sweden it looked like we were caught up by the importance of the game.”

“Criticism is the one thing you have to live with in football. I understand that while we are very disappointed, our supporters are disappointed as well. But we win and lose together. We have to cope with it and move on. Learn from this and be a better team the next time.”

Meanwhile, Deila has expressed confidence Celtic will still be able to attract players to Parkhead despite their failure to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League.

Celtic centre half Virgil van Dijk, who has been linked with a £10 million move to English Premier League club Southampton, admitted after the reverse he was poised to move on.

Deila stressed that Southampton would have to meet Celtic’s valuation of the Dutch defender to secure their target and stated that if he was sold the money would be used to strengthen the squad.

“He (Van Dijk) is a top player, but Celtic as a team is important,” said Deila. “He is under contract and we want to keep him. That’s how it is. He has ambitions to take the next step in his career but it has to be right for everybody if that is to happen.

“Everything will go back into the club, of course. That’s how it has been over the years and that’s how it will be in the future.”

The Norwegian coach, who is hoping to bring in Czech striker Libor Kozak from Aston Villa before the close of the transfer window next week, admitted the failure to qualify for the Champions League was a setback.

However, the 39-year-old is confident Celtic will still be able to bring in some decent players for the 2015//16 campaign.

He said: “Champions League is a higher level of course, but again there are a lot of players who want to play for Celtic, so that won’t be a main problem.”