Rochdale boss happy at ‘dominant’ performance in York City stalemate

“I thought we had been dominant in the game, we controlled both halves totally and played almost the whole game in York’s half. I think that reflecting on it, York maybe thought that it was going to be a difficult challenge winning it off of us in our own half and maybe would be dangerous for them to do so because of what they might leave behind, spaces wise. They kind of gave up the ball in that regard and we played almost the whole game in York’s half, I know that when a team plays a real low block like that then you need your fans on side, they need an understanding that their whole team is behind the ball. What we don’t need is any edginess, in games like that it’s very important not to get countered on or sucker-punched when you have so much of the ball. In the first half I thought that we were unfortunate with the moments we created in the first-half, unless you get that goal then the real challenge for the opposition is if they haven’t scored and they’re still in that same mode of defending deep and hanging on, so we moved the ball and the game really opened up in the second half. We had loads of chances I think, we were the much better team on the day, we controlled the game and created a lot more chances from it and were just unfortunate on this day that none of them went in. The fight and everything else in the performance, I can’t ask for much more from this team, particularly the situation they’re in, it’s admirable.