Swansea City's Ashley Williams believes there were plenty of positives to take from his team's narrow 1-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday evening.
The Reds emerged victorious thanks to James Milner's second half penalty, which had it's awarding questioned by manager Garry Monk after the game.
The defeat means that the Swans have now lost three of their last four games, and won just one of their last 11, but Williams was upbeat despite this, believing that the team showed improvements in the display.
Captain happy with performance
Speaking to Swansea's official website after the match on Sunday, Williams said that he felt the team "played well" and "worked hard all game," meaning that it was "painful" to see their efforts "to try and keep a clean sheet" go to waste "because of a penalty decision".
The spot-kick was a dubious one, with Neil Taylor penalised for handball as he turned his back to block a cross and saw it hit his flailing arm. Manager Monk was not happy with it, and the captain also cursed the team's luck, saying that "on another day" it might not have been given.
However, despite being "disappointed" and "frustrated" with this, he thinks that there were improvements in the performance, saying that Swansea "played well as a team" as they were "very good on the ball" and also "created some good chances."
It was certainly an improvement from last time out, when the Swans were trailing against a struggling Bournemouth side and found themselves having to claw their way back from 2-0 down to salvage a point.
High-flying Leicester up next
Though the Welsh outfit had to leave Anfield empty-handed, Williams believes that there were other things to take away from the game that can help the team find form again.
The captain picked out his side's "work rate" and their "desire" as huge positives, ones which he thinks mean they now have "something to build on ahead of next week" as they take on second-placed Leicester City.