McNulty’s side struggled to create opportunities, but converted their best opening, Danny Lloyd’s strike from the edge of the box nestling itself in the back of the net to pick up three points.
Victory sees rock-bottom Rochdale claw up some ground in the relegation battle, and McNulty – who only stepped in this week after Jim Bentley’s sacking – was pleased to cap off a difficult week with three points.
“It’s been a tough week for the players and a tough week for the fans,” he said.
“We had a challenging start to the week, and we’ve got players injured of course. It was always going to be a difficult game. Wimbledon had their tails up after some recent victories. Johnnie [Jackson] was saying before the game that he thought they were coming in off their best win of the season. We only had two or three days to work on something.
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