DANNY Cowley admitted to feeling disappointed despite Colchester’s stoppage-time fightback against City.

Jamie McDonnell’s late, late equaliser earned League Two’s draw kings their eighth stalemate.

But boss Cowley felt his side had done enough to have beaten the Bantams and ended their two-month wait for a second league win.

Cowley said: “Bradford are a huge club with big expectation and I think we should take a lot of credit, because we totally dominated that game.

“They score and from that moment onwards, they’re just time-wasting and taking time out of the game and really slowed it down.

“I know he plays ten minutes (of added time) but you do have to control the momentum of the game as well.

“We weren’t able to get the ball on the pitch but we got our just rewards in the end.

“I’ll be honest, we went in afterwards and we weren’t celebrating – we were just disappointed we didn’t win.”

Cowley was convinced Colchester should have had a penalty just before half-time for Richie Smallwood's sliding challenge on Lyle Taylor.

“It’s definitely a penalty. He said he’s got the ball which he has but after he’s got Lyle and he fouls Lyle first.

“We could moan about that but we had so many good moments.”

On-loan Nottingham Forest midfielder McDonnell scored his first senior goal in the ninth of 10 minutes added on by referee Carl Brook.

“You can’t fault the spirit and the togetherness, on and off the pitch,” added Cowley. “We showed fight and a never-say-die attitude.

“That’s not just the players, that was the supporters too, because they stayed with us.

“They could have easily got frustrated – I certainly was – but they didn’t, they chose to give positive energy and we repaid them in the end.

“That spirit and togetherness is even more powerful when it comes in the whole stadium.

“Macca was fully deserving of that goal. The football gods tend to look after the boys that are really honest and that are really hard working.

“He chased, he harried, he closed down, he won second balls, he got knocked down, he got back up again, he put out counter attacks, he sprints and he recovers.”