Huddersfield Town manager Chris Powell was eager to take the positives from his side's drab 0-0 draw with Cardiff City, despite the Terriers' winless run at home stretching to three games.
Town fought manfully but were unable to break down a stubborn Cardiff outfit, who themselves posed a tangible threat on the counter but neither side truly did enough to merit all three points.
But even though he was frustrated not to secure a maximum return from the stalemate, Powell felt there were plus points to be taken.
“You’ll always take any point as a football manager; you can never have a bad point in any circumstances,” he claimed.
“Over the balance of the season, you’ll always take any points that add to your tally and over the balance of play today, maybe a point was right.
“We’d been in today’s position three or four times already this season and lost, so it’s good in that respect. However, it wasn’t a game that will live long in the memory.
“Ideally I wanted three points today, but this was a game I wanted to take something from.
“Games like this will happen throughout the course of the season.”
In pictures: Huddersfield Town 0-0 Cardiff City
Powell felt his side deserved credit, in particular, for showing a similar defensive resolve to the one which foiled Bournemouth in the encouraging 1-1 draw last weekend.
“We prepared and looked at where Cardiff’s strengths and weaknesses were. I thought we handled that in the main,” he added.
“We defended really well as a team, especially right at the end when the long throws and crosses were coming in.
“We’ve got our first clean sheet for a while. We need that foundation. We built on what we did at Bournemouth defensively.
“I thought Alex Smithies was a positive once again; he made a superb save in the first-half.
“We made some superb blocks as well, so in a game with not too many highlights that was a plus.”
