Burton Albion defender Ben Turner admits that heavy defeats are hard to take in football, but it's how the team bounces back that shows where they are really at.

And the Brewers certainly bounced back from Saturday's 5-0 thrashing by Leeds United, responding with a performance that silenced any doubters on Tuesday night, holding promotion chasing Norwich City to a 0-0 draw at Carrow Road - earning their first away point and clean sheet of the season in the process.

That defensive solidity - so key towards the back end of last season when Albion shut-out the likes of Derby County, Huddersfield Town, Birmingham City and Nottingham Forest - was back on show once again as Turner, Jake Buxton and Kyle McFadzean kept a potent Norwich front-line quiet.

And 29-year-old Turner, back playing again after suspension, reckons the ability to react to the inevitable drubbing by an on-form team in the Championship is part of the make-up of Burton Albion.

Ben Turner (centre) challenges Sheffield Wednesday's Adam Reach and Tom Lees in the air

That much is true when looking back at last term, because the Brewers didn't let shipping four goals apiece to Brighton and Forest affect them - or the second-half meltdown 5-3 meltdown to Brentford.

There won't be many teams who'll do well to avoid being given a footballing lesson by Leeds, who look sure bets for automatic promotion given their unbeaten start to the season, but Burton's Norwich shutout spoke volumes of the characters within the squad.

Albion could even have won the match, such was the Brewers' improvement from Saturday's day to forget - and Turner has put that down to the personalities and the mentality that manager Nigel Clough has cobbled together in his tight-knit squad.

"Last season, Forest scored four past us first game of the season but we didn't go under - we conceded four at Brighton as well and these things happen," Turner said, pulling no punches.

"I wish the world was perfect, but it's not. We've been beaten 5-0, it is what it is. Everyone hurts off it, I'm not saying we don't.

"But you also understand that it's part of what you do, it's part of your job to put it to bed and go again and not sulk and moan about it.

"It's massively important that we stick together as a group, and we undoubtedly will."

Turner also reckons that the Brewers have a dressing room that works together to pull in the right direction, and that was certainly the case on Tuesday night as the team left everything on the Carrow Road pitch and battled until the end.

Ben Turner powers a header clear in the Carabao Cup victory at Cardiff City

Josh Murphy, Nelson Oliveira and Wesley Hoolahan had plenty of time on the ball to make things happen, it was just that they couldn't because of a determined Brewers side.

And for former Cardiff City man Turner, it's all because of the personalities on the pitch and their willingness not to down tools.

"We must have one of the best changing rooms in the league in terms of the characters we've got in there," he added.

"There are no big-time Charlie’s, there are no egos, because the manager won't have it.

"As a group, that (heavy losses) will happen.

"And if we are good enough, we will get the results we need, and if we don't get the results, it's because we're not good enough, it won't be anything else."