Portsmouth goalkeeper Craig MacGillivray was delighted to pick up a point at the Stadium of Light - even if it means the automatic promotion hopes of both Pompey and Sunderland is out of their respective hands.
MacGillivray made three excellent saves to deny the Black Cats a winner, firstly from Lewis Morgan, and then from strikers Charlie Wyke and Will Grigg.
Northern Ireland international Grigg also hit the post as Sunderland pressed for a second goal.
But the visitors held out for what MacGillivray feels could be a 'massive' point.
"You can look it at two ways. It was a must-win in the sense that promotions stayed in our hands," he told the Portsmouth News.
"But at least we’ve come off the pitch with a point.
"Ideally we would have won three points but at any other time in the season then a point would have been superb.
"Their home record is very good and they threw the kitchen sink at us but couldn’t get that second goal.
"Unfortunately for us, we couldn’t get that final little pass to get a winner.
"Three points would have been ideal but, you never know, a point could be massive."
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