Colchester Utd 0, Huddersfield Town 0

Nov 22 2004 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

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This was a hard-fought war of attrition in which Town's tactics proved a necessary evil.

Even Colchester manager Phil Parkinson admitted they hoped to exploit Town's "open approach" as they hunted a first win in nine matches.

Instead, they had the door slammed firmly in their face as Peter Jackson employed Pawel Abbott as a lone frontman, flooded midfield with the return of Tony Carss and demanded a first League clean sheet in over two months from his fired-up back line.

"It's a great compliment how hard the lads worked for me and I thought the application was excellent from the start," said Jackson.

"Nine goals conceded in our last two away trips in the FA Cup and LDV just wasn't good enough and it forced us to change things around.

"Playing one up front and getting Danny Schofield and Chris Brandon (pictured, above) to operate down the sides enabled us to stiffen things up.