Plymouth director of football Neil Dewsnip was “absolutely delighted” with his side’s shock 1-0 Championship victory at home to leaders Leicester that eased their relegation worries.
Recalled Mustapha Bundu scored a 21st-minute winner with an angled strike after running onto a defence-splitting ball from Adam Forshaw.
Home goalkeeper Michael Cooper made a string of stops as Leicester piled on the pressure but the hosts held on for maximum points as they moved to 16th and now sit five points clear of the bottom three.
Dewsnip said: “We are absolutely delighted with the result. Made up but we know it’s not done yet. We still have a target and that is to stay in this league.
“Our aim is to stay in the league. It’s been the same since day one when we started in the Championship. It’s been a great night for Plymouth Argyle Football Club.
“We still have three more games to play and more points to play for. The players stuck to the shape we wanted and I am delighted we stuck to the game plan.
“Mustapha’s goal was absolutely terrific. He’s got that finish in him we see every week in training. It does fly over the railings one or two times but credit to him that was a really good goal.
“The fans from the first minute to the last were just at it. I found myself clapping with them at one point.
“I am absolutely delighted the team recorded a 1-0 win for them.
“We have not had a great record defending set -pieces, so we worked on it and got an unbelievable response.
“Thankfully tonight was our night not theirs. I am sure Leicester will have theirs in the future.
“Tomorrow I think I will be watching the scores come in, especially as 24 hours ago we weren’t sitting here with these three points.”
Leicester boss Enzo Maresca took the positives from their second-consecutive loss as they remain level on points with second-placed Ipswich, with Leeds a point further back ahead of their games on Saturday.
He said: “It has been a tough week with two defeats in a row that we did not expect so we are upset.
“The only good thing is that fortunately, it is still in our hands.
“We need to take our chances and start to win games. We have four games to go, three of them at home, with our fans behind us, so hopefully we can finish well.
“At the end – and I have said it many times – the problem is when you don’t create chances. That is when you have to be worried and find a different solution.
“At this moment we are struggling to score. We created chances inside the six-yard box, from outside the box and we struggle.
“But there are moments over the season where we need to win the game and it doesn’t matter which way we need to win the game.
“But as I said, the positive thing is it’s still in our hands in the last four games. Now we cannot lose any more chances we have to try and win those (four) games.
“At this moment we need all our players. For sure, when you don’t win games there is always a why?
“I don’t see a big difference between tonight’s game and when we started the season.
“When we lose you are always looking for the reason. The team are still competing and are still creating chances.
“I don’t know if we need all the four games to win the league but we will still go out to win those four games.
“With one chance they (Plymouth) were clinical and we had more chances and were not clinical.”
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