"The resilience the players showed in the second half to fight, stay in the game, and create big opportunities to score is a credit to them. It’s a big point."

“We’re playing at home with a home crowd there in their droves to support the boys no matter what..."

"The boys had to put in a performance. They knew how important it was and I think they’ve done that today."

“We’ve gone through a tough time, and it has been difficult, but I’m so proud of the boys today."

"We can't afford to make the mistakes that we made, or not show the urgency that you need to show to shut players down and stop things from progressing."

“In general, I thought we worked hard and the boys showed good endeavour and good levels of intensity. Those are the things we spoke about needing to have when we play at home."

"It will be a really tough game, but one that we’re relishing and one we feel we can do well in."

"You can see the level in training, the size of the squad and there’s so many [players], it’s good competition for the spots, which is great."

“We owed the fans a performance and I think we gave them that, so it’s annoying that we couldn’t get that one over the line."

"We're disappointed to come away with only a point. We needed a reaction from the Preston game; we've got that today, I feel."

"We are looking for energy to want to play, an intensity to want to play. We have to refocus now."

“They’re professional boys and they take on a lot of information. We try not to make it too difficult to do that. They’re ready for this game."

"We should have got the win, I wish we got the win, but we’ve just got to keep fighting for it."

"In the second half we came out and I thought we took the game to them. We took the lead, and it should have been enough.”

Omer Riza spoke to the press after City’s 2-0 home defeat to QPR.