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level of performance. It surprised me because the group were really bright since Wednesday, they had been bright in the warm up, these things, so things that might concern you were all ticked.”
Shrewsbury manager Sam Ricketts said: “I am delighted with the performance and the draw is a very good draw for us.
“We set up with a game plan to frustrate, to make it hard against a very good team with good individual players. We haven’t got a great away record, so it’s pleasing to frustrate and for the first 25 minutes I thought we were excellent and got in front. “For me home, away, it’s the performance level that matters. If we perform like we do at home we will games.
“Knowing individual players in the Sunderland team we had to be respectful of that. We tried to play on the break a little and got our reward.
“It should give us confidence.” WALLY DOWNES feels Wimbledon are moving in the right direction.
Despite dropping to second-bottom in League One, the Dons followed up wins over Wycombe and Plymouth with a point against the play-offchasing Tangerines.
Downes said: “We can take great heart from the Christmas period and hopefully we move on.”
Blackpool boss Terry McPhillips said: “A clean sheet is a positive but if we want to win games, we have to start scoring.”