Leyton Orient head coach Richie Wellens was pleased to pick up a point from a League One stalemate at Stevenage on Saturday.

Both sides battled tricky conditions in the lunchtime kick-off, with clear-cut chances few and far between.

Josh Keeley spilled a shot from Louis Thompson just before the half-hour mark and Nathan Thompson putting the rebound wide.

And Keeley had to be alert to turn a wind-assisted effort away in the second half, before Elliott List headed over for the hosts.

Tom James saw a late O's free-kick well held by Murray Cooper, meanwhile, as the scoreline remained blank and Wellens felt it was a fair outcome.

He said: "I think whenever you come here at the best of times, you have to fight and scrap and do all the basics right, win duels.

"And today even more so in the conditions. Fair play to both sets of players, because the endeavour and attitude they've shown was very, very good.

"But it's a game that massively lacked any quality.

"And as I say when you come here you want to be up and fight for the battle but there needs to be a phase when you take the sting out of the game and control it.

"But every time we've done that we turned the ball over and they put it back down the sides of us, over the top of us.

"But to come here and not concede, I can't remember, Josh [Keeley, had] maybe one shot on target, we need to have more.

"I think it's a point gained, it's a good point away.

"Three clean sheets now in four so we're starting to build a little bit of momentum, we're starting to look really solid."

The point was not enough to lift O's out of the bottom four ahead of a midweek date with Mansfield Town at Brisbane Road.

But Wellens paid tribute to the travelling fans, who made up almost a quarter of the 4,259 crowd at the Lamex Stadium despite the earlier than usual start.

He added: "I think I'm most pleased about our supporters.

"Half 12 kick-off, I don't know about them, I set my alarm at half seven, it feels weird, it feels like seven or eight o'clock at night.

"Even though it's not far to travel, the fact you have to get up, we're not used to these 12.30 kick-offs, and then to see a spectacle which was pretty poor in general but stuck by us.

"In the last four games now we've got seven points, two wins, a defeat away at Wycombe and a draw.

"Big game Tuesday now, if we can win Tuesday that is a real good run of form.

"I'm pleased with the supporters, I thought they stuck with us all the way through the game and we rewarded them with a point, we don't have to come here again this season."

O's turn their attentions to the FA Cup after that, with a second-round tie at home against National League side Oldham Athletic on Saturday.

And they then return to league action with a third successive home fixture against Bristol Rovers on Tuesday (December 3, 7.45pm).