"The nature of the last couple of minutes leaves us with a feeling of injustice," said the Forest boss after Blackpool's late leveller.
"But we have to do better to make sure that decisions like that do not affect us.
"That is what we have to look at tonight. We have to perform better to make sure that we are in a position where decisions like that do not matter.
"We must look for an improvement in ourselves then hopefully the rest takes care of itself.
"We have worked our socks off, but we had to. We had to defend and defend and defend, because Blackpool took the ball and had numerous shots and efforts,
"They got into dangerous areas, which is concerning. But we headed enough, we cleared enough, we looked as though we did enough - but we haven't got the victory."