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Team can't celebrate a draw - we're here to win, says Dodds

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Vincent
Published date11 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
The Black Cats dented Leeds United's automatic promotion ambitions in Tuesday's stalemate at Elland Road and, while there were plenty of smiles among players and fans, the club's interim head coach warned against celebrating a draw

On the whole he was pleased the team stopped Leeds playing, but wants his men to be better in possession and in how they attack.

"The out-of-possession stuff I was really happy with," maintained

Dodds. "We completely nullified any threat they had and I think we had the better of the chances even though the chances we had were few and far between.

"Our disappointment is we need to be better with the ball. If we were slightly better with the ball I think we could have made the evening a bit more comfortable.

"The reality is, they only had one shot on target and the chances they did have normally came from our mistakes. So I have said that to the group, we have got to be better with the ball."

He added: "That's four clean sheets in the last five games. One of those games [0-0 QPR] was a bitterly disappointing performance. But in terms of the out-ofpossession stuff, I think we executed what we set out to do.

"I think we are much harder to play against. If we can improve with the ball and if we can improve in terms of playing quicker and playing forward earlier, running forward earlier, all those types of things, which we continue to work with, I think it's a really good team.

"We have some big games to come and the players are under no illusions that they have to keep going until the last game of the season. And we want to be undefeated from now until the end of the...

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