"It was a good game of football. Things seemed to go against us at certain moments. They're a good team and you can see that. We had to rejig things at half-time and tried to go toe-to-toe with a very good team. I did not envisage having that defence in the second half, but it was a case of needs must. Tyler was what I want him to be, a man mountain.
"Not really did I envisage having Cohen Bramall and Dexter Lembikisa as the outside centre-halves at any stage this season, but actually their legs got us out of trouble every now and then," he said.
"The most sensible thing was to go to a back five, but it had legs about it. It's certainly a formation I have used in the past. We have got to keep finding ways to adapt during games. It was more of a structured game. It was not pretty for the first 20 minutes, but it was solid. It was not spectacular in any way, but it calmed a few bodies down. Then the game disconnects and space appears."