Oldham boss Keith Curle was proud of his ‘brave’ players as they held Ipswich Town to a draw at Portman Road.
The Latics, struggling at the bottom of League Two, secured an FA Cup first-round replay after Davis Keillor-Dunn cancelled out Wes Burns’ opener to punish a Town side far from their best.
Indeed, Oldham could have won the game had Dylan Bahamboula’s second-half penalty not been saved by Christian Walton.
Curle, who criticised Town boss Paul Cook for looking beyond the two sides’ first-round tie in the build-up to this game, said: "Before the game I gave the players a maths equation, that if 10 outfield players give one per cent extra we'll end up with 10 per cent extra.
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"Everyone's got to play their part in giving that little bit extra and giving us that advantage, and I thought we did that. I thought we were brave, I thought the players understood the gameplan and I thought we executed it very well.
"One slight disappointment is I think we had a few opportunities where we could have hurt them a little bit more with the ball entering the final third and got a little bit too excited when we had an opportunity. It could have been a different scoreline.
"We're respectful, we know we're playing against a very good football team."
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