#INSERT type:image caption:Swansea' Angel Rangel was sent off late in Sunderland and Swansea's goalless draw. END#
Sunderland head coach Gus Poyet looked for the positives after his side were held to another draw in a goalless encounter against Swansea at the Stadium of Light.
The manager said he was disappointed that his team had failed to take their chances -- with Conor Wickham putting a late header over the bar -- but said: "Planning for the future, I am looking at the team. It doesn't matter if we win or not, I am going to tell you and I am going to be honest, and this is the way I want.
"For the first time in a few games, we trained for something and it really worked on the pitch, which is going to give the players the confidence to believe in what we do.
"We tried, we put the ball into the box more than ever, we had crosses and I don't know how many corners and free-kicks, so we are trying.
"This is us at the moment. We need to go to the next level, and that level is scoring and winning games."
On a day when clear-cut chances were at a premium, Sunderland created the better of them, with Lukasz Fabianski having to save from Adam Johnson and Santiago Vergini before the break and Sebastian Larsson after it.
Poyet said: "If I look from the point of view of the position in the league, the points we have got and where we want to be, yes, it's frustrating.
"But if I look at it from the point of view of training, things that we prepared for the game, the way we played, the chances we created, I need to be quite all right.
"I am not saying 'happy,' because we didn't win, but nearly because we stopped Swansea from playing, we were a little bit higher on the pitch, we had pace, we put plenty of balls into the box, created chances -- we just missed the goals."
Opposite number Garry Monk was satisfied with a point after seeing his team misfire on Wearside but end a run of two league defeats.
He said: "We weren't at our fluid best, not really creating the chances we have been doing in the other games.
"But the next best thing after that if that's happening is to make sure you defend well, keep a clean sheet and make sure you don't lose the game, which we did well."
Monk stressed that he had no complaints about Angel Rangel's premature exit after he was booked for an 81st-minute challenge on Will Buckley having already been cautioned for throwing the ball away.