Boss Mark Hughes is confident Manchester City will enjoy European competition for a second successive season.
City are six points off seventh place with six games remaining.
"We will try to get in to Europe by virtue of our league position," he said.
"If we can continue our good home form we have a chance of being in the mix for seventh place.
"The players were very low in the dressing room, it was an emotional night. But we have another big game at the weekend.
"We have got to pick ourselves up. It is a case of making sure we recover, clear our heads and go again.
"It will be difficult to re-focus and get back to Premier League action but we will take encouragement from this performance against Hamburg.
"It is important now we have a really strong finish. One of the things we have to do is address our away form, which has not been good enough."