DRAW A FAIR RESULT - REDFEARN

DRAW A FAIR RESULT - REDFEARN

Head coach gives his verdict on goalless draw with Nottingham Forest...

Neil Redfearn felt a point was a fair reflection of the game after seeing his side contest a goalless draw with Nottingham Forest at Elland Road.

Both sides had chances in either half, with Charlie Taylor coming closest to opening the scoring for United, only to be denied from inside the area by a fine Karl Darlow save.

Asked if he felt the point was fair, Redfearn replied: "Probably. I think we had the best chance – the one that fell to Charlie Taylor in the first half half. It was a great chance.

"Other than that, I thought it was two sides that have been doing well. We locked horns with no quarter given.

"The pleasing thing from our point of view is that I thought we played well enough. I thought we defended well.

"We looked solid enough at the back."

Redfearn’s side had dominated large parts of the first half, but were just unable to find that killer ball after getting behind the Forest defence and into dangerous areas on numerous occasions.

"That was mentioned at half-time," he said. "I think, sometimes, in and around the box it looked frantic but sometimes you’ve got a split second longer than what you think.

"You can steady yourself and have that little bit of composure to pick a pass, sometimes you’ve got to brave enough to do it."

The draw meant back-to-back clean sheets for United, with the defence standing firm, particularly in the second half, to keep Forest at bay.

"It was a good clean sheet," said Redfearn. "Forest are on a good run and it makes the three points at Wigan even better because we haven’t got beat today, which is important.

"We tried to win it, I changed it around.

"I thought they looked a little bit samey but Antonio is a handful. They were making sure they tried to isolate him.

"I thought we did well against him to be fair, I thought Scott Wootton stuck at it and I thought Berardi did well with Burke.

"They’re two game-changes are the two wingers and then Lansbury arriving from deep, but I thought we countered it quite well."

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