Colchester Utd 0, Huddersfield Town 0

Nov 22 2004 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

"We just had to tighten defensively and I'm very happy with a point, because I stressed to the players before the game the importance of keeping a clean sheet.

"I wanted to see the stupid mistakes cut out, especially from set pieces because Colchester are good at those, and I got the response I wanted from everyone.

"The back three were excellent, we played some good football when we got the chance and hopefully this is a performance and a result we can build on.

"We have to make the Galpharm our fortress, so if we can take points away from home at difficult places like Layer Road and win on our own patch we'll be all right. Wrexham this weekend is a big game for us."

It was far from pretty on Saturday and both sets of fans in Layer Road's biggest League crowd of the season, 3,972, were unhappy with the quality of entertainment.

Town were so hell-bent on repelling Colchester's quick breaks that little was seen of them as an attacking force.

When Jackson's men did move forward, Colchester were equally efficient at getting men behind the ball and serious opportunites were few and far between.

Town did have probably the best chance of the match with 20 minutes left when a lovely piece of skill from Abbott enabled him to slip the attentions of Gavin Johnson in the box.