Scunthorpe United manager Nigel Adkins believes his side's play-off semi-final against MK Dons is perfectly poised following Friday's 1-1 first leg draw.
Martyn Woolford had fired the Iron into an early lead at Glanford Park, but Aaron Wilbraham's equaliser has left the tie on a knife-edge ahead of next week's second leg.
"It was a good result from our point of view because we know we've got to go down there and win," said Adkins.
"We got on the front foot, played a high tempo, gave them problems and we've got to be pleased with that.
"We're in the tie, that's what we wanted to do. They know that we've beaten them already this season with a really good performance so they know we can go down there and get a good result and it's all to play for."
Roberto Di Matteo, the Dons manager, praised his side's patience.
"I think it was a very exciting game. We always go out and try to win games and I think the whole team had a good game," he said.
"Maybe one or two players didn't play as well as they can but generally we did pretty well.
"We said to them to 'be patient. It's over 180 minutes, let's play our game and stick to our game plan' and that's what we did."