Huddersfield manager Lee Grant took very little solace from his side coming back from behind three times in a hectic 3-3 draw at home to AFC Wimbledon.
The Terriers boss felt all three goals his side conceded were much too soft, with Wimbledon getting the first goal on the counter-attack and then scoring twice more from poorly defended set pieces.
Grant said: “We’ve scored enough goals to win three games, we’ve created enough chances to win five or six games, and we’ve somehow conspired against ourselves to give away three really poor goals.
“Collectively, the group will be going home frustrated knowing that there’s lots of good bits in that performance – an awful lot, actually and some of it I don’t want to get lost because we’ve not won the game.
“But I can’t help but be frustrated and angry, in all honesty – the same as the group are – because they know that’s two points dropped.
“The goals we concede really aren’t good enough from an individual perspective or collectively in certain moments, really not good enough.
“The game was exactly what we expected it to be, but it’s incredibly frustrating because we’re smart enough to understand what this game required, and we didn’t deliver it from a defensive aspect.
“I don’t take any consolation from a point. I’m not skipping home because we won a point. That will stick in my throat, if I’m being honest – but the character of the group to come back three times, I love.”
Goals from Marcus Browne, Danilo Orsi and Ryan Johnson gave Wimbledon three separate leads but each one was cancelled out by Leo Castledine, Ben Wiles and, finally, Alfie May in the 86th minute.
Wimbledon boss Johnnie Jackson was left with mixed feelings after his side picked up their first league point in four games.
He said: “From our point of view, there’s some good goals in there, it’s just a shame that we’re not sitting here talking about a win, but the boys have done great.
“The front two combined really well and we thought they’d leave spaces in behind that we could get at.
“It’s unbelievable, in windy and rainy conditions a long way from home, that we’ve had such magnificent support. I’m gutted in the end that we couldn’t give them the win, but delighted that we’ve given them something, because we haven’t in the last three games.
“It’s nice to get a good point on the board that could have been three. It gives us a bit of confidence going to face Cardiff in the Trophy on Tuesday.
“That was a hard game of football in tough conditions on a big pitch against a really good team, so recovery will be key for us now.
“We’ll see how the boys come out of it, but we’ll go to Wales on Tuesday and pick a team we think can do the job.”
