Nigel Clough was left scratching his head as he lost four of his Mansfield players to injury during their 2-2 draw at Doncaster.
The Stags twice came from behind to maintain their unbeaten start to the League Two season, with goals from Louis Reed and George Maris cancelling out strikes from Tom Nixon and Joe Ironside.
And Clough felt his side was worthy of taking all three points, despite the injury issues on the night.
“I can’t believe we’ve lost four players to injury,” he said.
“Alfie Kilgour doesn’t look very good – we think he might have snapped his Achilles – and, then, Callum Johnson has got a hamstring strain, Aaron Lewis a calf strain and Hiram Boateng a groin strain.
“We had to move Lucas Akins to right-back from centre-forward which we didn’t want to do, but he was the only option and played more like a right winger than a right back anyway in the second half.
“We should have won with the chances we had, but we couldn’t quite finish them off apart from the two we scored that were excellent in terms of the build-up play too.
“We also got punished quite harshly, as they only really had three shots but two of them have gone in and, whilst I thought Christy (Pym) should have done better when he parried the shot for the second goal, the first was a goal-of-the-season contender.”
Doncaster boss Grant McCann was far from satisfied with the draw despite it getting them off the mark in League Two for the season.
Nixon and Ironside both netted their first goals for the club but McCann was frustrated to have not taken the win on home soil, despite a much improved performance from his side.
He said: “I want to see more fight and determination before we can see the fruits of how we want to play. The basics of football are making sure you work, you run and fight and the bits after that come.
“We’ve drilled that into the players over the last couple of days and hopefully the fans could see that. I’m not happy with a point at home, no matter what stage we’re at or what stage the opposition are.
“It’s a step in the right direction for us in what we’ve shown in the first two league games.
“We showed a lot of grit and determination, particularly reacting off what we saw on Saturday. We needed to show that and we needed a reaction on that side of things anyway because we were up against a Mansfield side that’s been together for five years or so.
“We’re a bit of a work in progress. We need to make sure we get through this walk-before-we-can-run period. I thought we showed a lot of that.”
Man United could be without Toone until new year, says Skinner
Marc Skinner revealed that Manchester United could be without midfielder Ella Toone until the new year after she picked up a calf injury in training.
Toone has featured in five games in the Women's Super League this season, but is yet to register a goal or an assist so far this term.
The 25-year-old has missed United's last two games and was not selected in Sarina Wiegman's England squad for their upcoming friendlies against the United States and Switzerland.
She had previously appeared in a staggering 96 straight matches before missing United's WSL showdown with Leicester City last weekend.
But ahead of the Red Devils' meeting with league leaders Chelsea on Sunday, Skinner confirmed they would be without Toone for not only that game, but for the foreseeable future.
"We have three games [after the international break and before Christmas]. There's always the hope, but I think you balance and you go, 'right, if we can get her back, we get her back'," Skinner said.
"But we're just not going to rush her in this moment because it's a calf injury, it's your running mechanism. If we injure the running mechanism, it takes longer.
"So ideally we'd like her back for those games afterwards.
"The projection is she misses this game [Chelsea], she misses the international window, probably misses the first game after that, and then we'll see from there.
"But because it is such a short block of only three games, we'll assess whether it's worth that or actually resetting to come back after Christmas."
Al-Nassr 1-2 Al-Qadsiah: Aubameyang winner ends hosts' unbeaten run
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hit the winner as Al-Qadsiah inflicted a 2-1 defeat on Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League on Friday to end their 21-match unbeaten run.
Cristiano Ronaldo's seventh league goal of the season put Al-Nassr ahead, but Al-Qadsiah replied swiftly through Julian Quinones before Aubameyang struck the decisive blow.
The hosts drew first blood in the 32nd minute when Ronaldo slotted home after Al-Qadsiah goalkeeper Koen Casteels had spilled a routine catch from Talisca's cross.
However, Al-Nassr's joy was short-lived when Quinones brought down Turki Al Ammar's delivery five minutes later, with the Mexcio winger firing past Bento to level the scores.
Quinones also played a part in the winning goal after brilliantly turning the ball back across goal from Nahitan Nandez's search pass to tee up a simple finish for Aubameyang.
The result sees Al-Qadsiah move level on 22 points with third-placed Al-Nassr, with Al-Shabab also level with them.
Stefano Pioli's Al-Nassr are six points adrift of defending champions and leaders Al-Hilal, who also have a game in hand.
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