David Artell was real positives to take from Cheltenham performance.

David Artell has told the club’s official web-site that he was encouraged with his side’s performance over 90 minutes against Cheltenham Town at the weekend. Crewe did everything apart from find that decisive goal that would have ended a run of 10 games without defeat and Artell was quick to highlight the positives.

David told crewealex.net: “If it was a Boxing match it would probably have been stopped but we don’t participate in boxing and the bottom line is it was a point each.

“We have to take the positives. You have to and there were a number of them. We have created chances, we have kept a clean-sheet and we didn’t lose the game. We also had a better performance over 90 minutes.

“Of course, the opposition is at the wrong end of the table, like ourselves, and not in the top six like Doncaster and Luton, but it will be a good point if we can build on it.

“It was a better performance over 90 minutes and players gave everything they had. We created the better chances but we didn’t quite have enough quality to stick them away.

“We deserved something and probably didn’t have that little bit of luck, but we won’t be relying on luck because there is enough quality here.”