Steve Cooper relished the tactical battle he had with Sheffield United as The Reds battled hard to earn a point at The City Ground on Tuesday night.
Morgan Gibbs-White gave The Blades the opener with 12 minutes remaining, but five minutes later, substitute Lewis Grabban found an equaliser as he flicked the ball beyond Robin Olsen and into the net from close-range.
The Reds pressed for a winner but were unable to find a breakthrough, earning another late point on the back of Friday night’s draw with QPR.
Head coach Steve Cooper said: “It was a tactical game. I quite like them games because you have to have your thinking cap on in terms of how you approach it and it proved to be that type of game.
“First half, we let them have too much of the ball. We still had moments and turnovers particularly, but we didn’t make the right decision with the final passes and action.
“Second half, I thought it was fairly even and as the game was going on I thought we looked the stronger team and we just needed to turn the screw a little bit. We looked stronger than them and looked fitter than them and when that’s the case you need to smell that and go for it.
“We tried to go for it. The changes helped and gave us good impetus because the guys who were on worked really, really hard.
“I thought if any team was going to win it, it was going to be us. But I also have to recognise that it was a tough game with two good teams having it out.”