"We stood up to them and were well worthy of the points" - Assistant manager Cooper's verdict on Town's win at Gateshead

A goal in each half from Kane Thomson-Sommers and Milli Alli sealed an impressive victory for Town and helped get their promotion push back on track.

"Deserved three points, from the outset, the way we set-up," Cooper told the Courier.

"We know their style, we've had success over a number of games against them, how they try and move you into areas of the pitch and unbalance you.

"But we stuck to our game-plan really well, we were patient and I thought we were a threat when we won the ball back.

"Two really good individual goals, which is really pleasing to see from Kane and Milli.

"We know they can have the ball, they have the highest percentage of possession in the league, but a lot of that is in their own third, in their own territory, and if we kept to our shape and structure without the ball, we could be solid and then hit them on the counter-attack.

"It's something that worked in the Trophy final, it's something we did well at home but we didn't convert the chances from the ones we had, which was disappointing because the longer you go in games and you don't take those chances, there might be an element of doubt that you can commit to your plan.

"But we got the goal and that was a really good moment in the game to be able to step forward and get a bit of impetus.

"And then I felt we were well worthy of the win in the second-half in terms of building on what we did in the first.

"We knew they might come at us and we might have to pick them off a bit more, like we did with Milli's goal.