Forest and Leeds still without wins

Forest dominated the opening exchanges and took the lead through Dexter Blackstock after just eight minutes. "The game should have been over and done with after the first 35 minutes. If it had been a boxing match it would have been stopped," said Billy Davies, the Forest manager. Davies' side were not able to find a second goal and were made to pay after 36 minutes when Lloyd Sam heading in the equalising goal "Not through their good play but from our bad play, they have equalised and we have gone in at half-time very disappointed," said Davies. "The second half was stop-start and I think we were guilty at times of trying to overplay it. "We must learn how to handle situations like this against teams who play a certain way. There is a need for us to change our mentality at times." Both sides came into the match on the back of opening day defeats and Carling Cup exits, so will be relieved at getting their first points on the board. But Leeds will have gone back north feeling they should have won the match. They had the better of the closing stages, as Forest seemed to sit back and settle for a draw. "We know we are going to be on the back foot at times in this division but we dug in and our goal gave us a bit of belief," said the Leeds boss Simon Grayson. "In the end we were the dominant team and there were a lot of encouraging things."