Norwich City head coach Dean Smith has given canaries.co.uk his reaction to Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Cardiff City.
"Very disappointed to come away with nothing," he said. "We didn't deserve to come away with nothing. It wasn't a great game in terms of chances. They're xG (expected goals) is probably 0.04. I know Romaine \[Sawyers\] very well and that certainly wasn't a shot, that was a pass that got deflected in.
"But we weren't good enough in the final third. Our final ball wasn't quite right, our delivery or pass wasn't quite right. I thought it was a scrappy first ten minutes, then I thought we totally controlled the first half after that.
"We've got in really good areas and Dimi got a great chance to lay it on a plate for Sarge to score and make it 1-0. We had another one at the end where Sam McCallum could've put Onel in. It was just our final ball that was lacking. That's something that we'll certainly be working on this week."
Perry Ng was sent off for Cardiff in the 74th minute and Grant Hanley got a second yellow card in the 85th.
"I don't think we've had many booked at all," Smith said, when asked about the discipline.
"Grant's the only one. It was an emotional atmosphere here, you could see that and you could see from their bench how emotional they were, but the boy Ng has kicked Teemu as he's getting up and started a melee.
"Grant put two hands on his chest so I don't know why he went down holding his nose. Four of them got cautioned and only one of ours, but it was silly when Grant was on a caution to trip the lad and get the second yellow."
Liam Gibbs and Danel Sinani came on for their City debuts, while Jordan Hugill, Onel Hernandez and Sam McCallum were also introduced later on.
"Whether I'm happy or not, we have to use it," Smith said regarding the increase in substitutions allowed. "It's there for us and we'll use it as we see fit. We had to try to get back in the game there. We hadn't created enough opportunities."
With Todd Cantwell dropping deep to play long aerial passes, Andrew Omobamidele carrying the team forward and Jacob Sorensen breaking up the play, City's players had the freedom to play out of position at times, but it wasn't enough in the end.
"Kenny had the chance where it hit the bar but that was from the set piece. We just needed something else in the final third that we weren't getting, so we used the substitutes to the best we could. We're just disappointed with the result because it should've been 0-0 at least. It's a tough one to take but we know where we're at and the lads know that we have to be better in the final third."
"There were certain elements where we've controlled the football for two thirds of the pitch, but that final ball is the biggest thing. It's what Teemu Pukki thrives on - it's where he gets 55 goals at this level.
"We've got to find ways to give him chances to score goals and we didn't today."
Next weekend, we welcome Wigan Athletic to Carrow Road for the first home game of the season.
"People will see that it was a committed group out there trying to win a football game," Smith said. "We lacked a little bit of quality in the final third, but it's a hiccup and next week we're thankful to be at home and hopefully have the crowd behind us to go and get a victory."