CHIPPENHAM Town extended the club’s unbeaten run to nine games thanks to consecutive 3-1 victories in National League South.

The Bluebirds first dispatched Dover Athletic at home on Saturday after the Kent club had cancelled out Joe Parker’s opener before half-time.

Craig Fasanmade and Owen Windsor netted late for Gary Horgan’s men to ease the threat of relegation.

Chippenham then followed that victory up with another by the same scoreline, but this time it was Taunton Town who were on the end of a 3-1 deficit in Wiltshire.

After ex-Bluebird Ross Stearn had put the Somerset club ahead, Will Richards, Matt McClure, and Fasanmade all scored a goal each to maintain positive momentum at the Thornbury Surfacing Stadium.

Reflecting on two victories that lifted Chippenham up to 18th and four points clear of the drop zone, Horgan said: “We’ve scored three in both games, which was nice.

“But we’ve just started to hit the net a bit more rather than the performances necessarily being better.

“It’s not that we haven’t been scoring, it was just that we’ve had good performances where the result didn’t follow.

“It was a really good performance in an entertaining game against Dover. They’re a good side, but we could have scored more than the three we did.

“And it was a similar story against Taunton to be fair. We could have been 4-0 up at half-time. We hit the post and they cleared one off the line before going up the other end and scoring.

“You wondered whether it was going to be the same old story, but no, we continued to do the right thing and we were rewarded.”

With two games in hand over many of their relegation rivals, Chippenham appear well placed to stave off the drop.

Horgan insisted his players are just as confident of completing the job as they have always been, but a few wins on the bounce has eased some of the pressure around the group.

He said: “I think the wins have given us a renewed belief because we’ve always known we were doing the right things.

“The lads know they haven’t been playing badly, but it is sometimes easier to be playing badly because then you know to correct things to improve.

“Not to say we were perfect, but we know we were doing the right things. That run really couldn’t continue, and I think it’s now a lift of frustration after winning a few.”