Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson was happy with their 0-0 draw with Nottingham Forest.
Hodgson felt it was a fair point.
He said: "You have to take games as they are and you can't predict how the game is going to be looking before it takes place. Both teams had spells where they were looking dangerous. Both teams were hard-working and organised and determined not to give anything away because we know how important clean sheets are. In our case we are a bit wounded anyway and to lose Jeffrey Schlupp so early on, we had to come over the mental barrier that was going to help in putting Rak-Sakyi on.
"In the end, both teams get to a point where you want to win it and you're trying to win it but the fear that you are going to come away with a 1-0 loss and if either team had won by that margin, you would have come away with regrets. It's a point each and not what either team wanted but it's better than no points."
On Jean-Philippe Mateta's chance, he added: "If you take it as pure chances, they had the better ones but we had quite a lot of play in and around their box. I think they defended it quite well but the bottom line was that we knew it was going to be tough for us and losing more players and getting bad news about some of our best and most creative players. Eberechi Eze has a long lay off, Michael Olise is no closer. [Jefferson] Lerma is still a long way off.
"With all that in mind, I am quite happy and proud of the players for the fight they put in. It's not a happy dressing room because like all dressing rooms, they want to win and they think they can win but I'm a bit more sanguine and a bit more realistic and I realise that sometimes a point is a good point to have because it could so easily have been no points."