With team selection limited the former Plymouth Argyle boss was forced to throw Michael Brown into the deep end when his fitness was not 100%.
O Lord Michael Brown
"Alan Wright did his hamstring and calf and Stuart McCall had also been a bit of a doubt before kick-off, so we were a bit at sixes and sevens," Warnock told sufc.co.uk.
"I wouldn't have risked Brown if Wright had been fit, because playing Michael and Macca was a bit of a gamble.
"But he played for 90 minutes and told me afterwards that he feels okay."