Gavin Gunning- said that he was hoping Swindon Town's 3-1 victory over Tranmere Rovers helps to change their season's momentum.

Sean McGurk opened the scoring with a wonderful solo effort in the first half before Rob Apter thundered home the equaliser minutes later.

Then Rushian Hepburn-Murphy took over as first he got on the end of Udoka Godwin-Malife's through ball to round the goalkeeper and score and then finished off McGurk's fine pass to double his tally.

Gunning said that with the way results have been for Swindon this season, the win felt very pleasing and needed to be built upon.

He said: “It was a massive three points, it is always going to be massive for a team in our position who have not had the most fantastic of runs, which has been long ongoing, unfortunately.

“Hopefully this can flip us around, we have won one game, we are not knocking on the play-offs or going to win the league or anything but we are going in the right direction.

“It is a positive thing and the game management was good at the end, Rushian [Hepburn-Murphy] was struggling and we were having to play with ten.

“They had a few openings at the end and they overhit a few crosses, but other than that I don’t think they had a chance.

"We can only grow from that, I think the pitch was heavy and that saps the legs, so it is hard to get around and it is hard to be light on your feet.

"I think for the first 15 or 12 minutes we were still in the shed, so that wasn't fantastic, but after that we were the dominant team.

"I understand that you can't be fantastic all the time and sometimes we are not going to be on it, but it is important that we stay locked into the game plan and we don't fall into bad habits again.

"If you want to be a successful team then you have got to flip that around and then when they have the 20 minutes after that you punish them."

Gunning also poured credit onto the man who notched two goals, saying that Hepburn-Murphy provided a real spark for the team to play off and also Udoka Godwin-Malife after returning to the starting line-up having missed out against Stockport County.

He said: "He was quality tonight, I think he was a real threat and he gave us that spark whenever he got on the ball.

"He was sharp and he will probably be a bit stiff tomorrow and we will have to manage him towards the weekend.

"It is going to be tough for him having ran as hard as he did to try and get more minutes but hopefully we can still get him on the pitch.

"There were so many good performances after the first 15 to 20 minutes, I thought that Dokes [Godwin-Malife] did really well considering that he didn't play at the weekend."