Leeds manager Thomas Christiansen believes his side need to learn from Brentford after the west London club's pace and verve sent the Dane's side back to Yorkshire with nothing.
The Bees made it nine games unbeaten with a third successive win - 3-1 over Leeds - after a disappointing start to the season that saw them languishing near the drop zone.
And the Leeds boss, while he felt his side should have taken something from the game, admitted they needed to learn from Brentford.
Under-fire Christiansen said: "This was a must win but we didn't, but we had a very good second half and I believe we deserved more.
"The pressure will grow and grow if we don't win but there is only one way to come out of it and that's to stick together."
He added: "We were late in several situations and Brentford are a good team that plays fast, but we need to learn from that.
"We made two changes at half-time and I will take with me the positive that we raised our game, equalised and could have got the win."
Three goalkeeping blunders from both keepers littered the game, with Leeds' Andy Lonergan at fault for two of the Bees goals.
Christiansen said: "They approached our goal four times and scored three goals.
"Mistakes we can all commit but today they cost us the game. When people make individual mistakes there is no system that can support that.
"It's disappointing when you think you deserve more, but there is only one thing to do and that is to continue working hard.
"If we don't have faith and don't believe we may as well throw everything away and go home. But we are fighters and we will fight back again."
