How many times have you heard the phrase, "if this had been a boxing match, it would have been stopped"?
Blackburn's goalless draw with Middlesbrough was one of those games where one side dominated for very long periods, with the other trying desperately to remain where they started.
I'm convinced this was a game Rovers would have lost earlier this season. But credit to them, they were solid. They were miles away from being spectacular, but who knows how important the point could prove to be on 2 May?
The first half of Saturday was reminiscent of an FA Cup tie where it was teams from two different divisions going head to head.
That isn't intended to be disrespectful to Blackburn, who were again hit by injuries to key players. It's just the way it was.
Boro were strong, athletic, full of running and had midfielders making intelligent third man runs – and almost getting there on a number of occasions.
Balazs Toth was forced into making a couple of high-class saves in the process.
The second half wasn't quite a repeat of the same in terms of clear-cut chances, but Boro still called the tune for the vast majority of it.
Rovers had fleeting forays into the opposition box, but when half-chances arrived, it didn't really look like the belief was there to take them.
Todd Cantwell and Yuki Ohashi were certainly positive changes that livened up the front line.
On Saturday my co-commentator Kevin Gallacher made the point that Rovers boss Michael O'Neill is well used to matches like this from his two spells in charge of Northern Ireland.
That view was shared by O'Neill, who feels the way to get out of trouble with the tools at his disposal is to focus on the structure of the team, do lots of work out of possession and basically be solid more than spectacular.
When the final whistle was blown on Saturday, I think his approach was appreciated by the supporters. The reality of the situation Rovers are in is that if they were to go toe-to-toe with the best in the league, they would be undone.
They have to find victories to stay in the Championship, but they also can't let games run away from them like others around them in the table are doing at the moment.
The Easter double header against West Midlands opposition – Birmingham away and West Bromwich Albion at home – will be the next two "cup finals" in this scrap to finish above the dotted line.
And they will have to do it without yet another senior player in Hayden Carter who has succumbed to injury and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
I mentioned when O'Neill was appointed that if he could call on the services of seven key players until the end of the season, they'd have a good chance of staying up.
Three of those, including Carter, Sondre Tronstad and Andri Gudjohnsen, won't kick another ball this campaign, while the battling qualities of Lewis Miller remain on the sidelines.
It's imperative the injury list doesn't gain any more new names. Saturday's bench included promising academy youngsters Frank Vare and Valentin Joseph, with neither having played a senior career game.
The starting line-up included another academy graduate in Tom Atcheson. He was terrific as the right-sided centre back of three. So much so that his club manager has called him up to the Northern Ireland senior squad for the very first time this week.
It's all remaining hands to the pump for seven more outings in the space of 23 days starting on Good Friday. Who could possibly predict the outcome?
