Mowbray happy to grab point

The game finished 0-0 but Palace had the best of chances, with 22 shots on goal during the game at the Riverside.

Boro were missing Barry Robson and Scott McDonald through injury and saw midfielder Faris Haroun limp off after just seven minutes, and Mowbray was pleased his makeshift team got a point.

"We are down to the bare bones," said Mowbray after his side recorded a third successive draw. "I think we are just glad to get a point.

"It has been a difficult week for us. We only had four in training on Thursday and that makes it difficult to get the strong team out.

"We had a few players out there that perhaps in normal circumstances wouldn't have played but that's football and you have to get on with it.

"But that said, we did well. I'm proud of them. We kept digging in, we stayed in the game and we got a clean sheet.

"I understand the frustration of the supporters because we didn't create much, but Palace are a good side and if we had attacked them today they would have picked us off."

Freedman felt that his Palace side had the edge and should have taken all three points which would have moved him into the top half of the table. Despite this he was keen to take the positives from the performance.

"I can understand why people think we should have got the three points, " he said.

"We outplayed them at times and acquitted ourselves well. Performance wise, we played well, although you live or die by your results in this game.

"But I take heart because if we play like that then we will win more than we lose.

"I don't think the conditions we really a factor. When you play football in this country then you learn how to deal with these conditions."