Norwich City head coach Dean Smith wanted to see more from his side on the ball in Saturday's 0-0 draw away to Brighton & Hove Albion.
"It wasn't great, I must be honest," he said. "Defensively, our goalkeeper and our captain led the back line really well and restricted Brighton to chance outside the box. We got an awful lot of blocks on them. We saw the gritty side of us.
"We've got good players who have been recruited to play a passing game and at the moment they're a little bit shy in confidence and I didn't think we passed the ball well enough.
"When we did, we created a chance. Hopefully, because we've been on a sequence of losses, breaking that can help us build confidence again.
"Brighton are a possession-based team and we knew that. That's why we changed the system today. Players dropping out this week made that decision for us as well. We lacked a bit of energy at times.
"I've not seen a lot of the lads for two weeks as they've been on international duty and we've had a lot pull out this week. We've now got nine injured in the treatment room, which is disappointing.
"To come here and go away with something, I suppose that's the biggest plus we can take, but it certainly wasn't a great performance.
"Max has played regularly, as have Brandon and Josh, but they're out. Ozan had just got back in the team, so it's effected us but it is what it is and we had to put in a battling performance.
"We weren't anywhere near where I want us to be on the ball but we got a point and a clean sheet at the end of the day."
Norwich had a chance to snatch a late winner when Teemu Pukki crossed for Milot Rashica, but the Kosovan shot over the bar.
"There were two big chances - the penalty and Milot's chance," Smith said. "If we'd have gone home with three points, I'd have been delighted, but we certainly wouldn't have deserved that.
"Burnley are in the bottom three with us and we're at home, so hopefully we can give the supporters a lot more to cheer about than there was today.
"I think Kabak is out for a while, but Brandon is back running on the grass. With Max, I'm not sure. Josh rolled his ankle on Tuesday and could be out for a couple of weeks. Płacheta also rolled his ankle in training yesterday, and Rupp has a hamstring issue.
"Hopefully, the fans made the difference today and made Neal Maupay put it over the bar, but I told the supporters in our Q&A last week that I want to make sure we're fighting until the end.
"It wasn't a pleasing performance, but I think they can see the players haven't downed tools. We got lots of bodies behind the ball when we needed to but we want to be more fluid as a football team."