Penney was delighted with the defensive merit of his side

Darlington manager Dave Penney believes his side are beginning to find their form in League Two after a difficult start to the 2008-09 campaign.

Saturday's 2-1 win at Luton Town helped the Quakers into ninth place and Penney hopes his side can maintain the recent improvement in the coming games.

"If we're going to achieve things we have to come to places like this and get results," he told BBC Tees.

"If you come away unbeaten it gives you confidence of getting results."

Saturday's win means the Quakers remain unbeaten in their last three games and Penney has been impressed with the response of his players since the 3-1 defeat against Bournemouth a fortnight ago.

"We were a lot more resilient, we were stronger, not as open and more defensive minded," he said.

"It's important that we stayed in the game longer and we did that at Shrewsbury, Huddersfield and now at home to Luton.

"I'm delighted. It pleased me more that we came to Luton and ground out a result."