Danny Cowley believes Colchester deserved their late point at Shrewsbury

Danny Cowley felt Moses Sesay’s stoppage-time equaliser was the least Colchester deserved following their 2-2 draw at Shrewsbury.

Sesay finished well from Oscar Thorn’s pass in the fourth minute of stoppage time to rescue a point for the U’s, just two minutes after home midfielder Isaac Fletcher thought he had won it, netting after Thimothee Lo-Tutala had fumbled George Lloyd’s shot.

Sesay had earlier given Colchester a 19th-minute lead after weaving his way past two defenders before converting, but Luca Hoole headed home a 29th-minute equaliser from Tom Sang’s corner for the hosts.

Cowley said: “The equaliser was the least we deserved.

“We’re disappointed because we scored two great goals and that should be enough to win the football match, but it wasn’t.

“It would have been really cruel for us to lose the game 2-1 because we created so many chances in the second half.

“I really liked the way we started, in the first 25 minutes, we looked really calm and composed.

“You’re playing against a heavyweight boxer as they have so many physical players who put the ball forward very quickly and put lots of balls in your box.

“We concede from nowhere really and we’re so frustrated with the goal. The referee gives two soft blocks for us from corners, I say to him for their first corner ‘massive block on Sean Raggett’, but exactly the same if not worse happens, he pulls him, they end up scoring.

“They got some momentum after they scored and we had to weather that storm after half-time, but in the second half, we played with a lot of composure.”

Shrewsbury boss Gavin Cowan believes his side should have more points on the board.

“I am really proud of the players today,” he said.

“In terms of a points season, it’s been different at the moment but the performances in the last four have shown that they are really invested in what they do and there’s a lot of connection in the changing room.

“They know they need to be better in the big moments and I feel that when you have got people who have that belief, if we can just now instil that belief of winning games, we’ll come good.

“Listen, if the players keep churning out performances like that, if they keep applying themselves like they’ve done all week, this squad will make sure that we get some success here.

“Everybody feels like it should be more points.

“In the last four games, we’d have a right to think we should have had anywhere between nine and 12 points on the board.

“Performances are there and we’ve been speaking about it for weeks now, but we are still feeling that we should have more points on the board.”