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Micky Mellon will not allow Tranmere players to get carried away



Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2019 by PA

Micky Mellon will not allow Tranmere players to get carried away

Tranmere boss Micky Mellon insists his side will not be getting carried away as James Norwood’s double earned the League Two play-off chasers a 2-1 victory at relegation-threatened Port Vale.

Norwood struck either side of the break before Ben Whitfield’s consolation on the hour as Tranmere held on to move within three points of the fourth-tier play-offs.

Mellon said: “We will keep going. We won’t get too carried away about what we do. There has got to be performances like that, games up and down the country will go like that, that’s what happens, and the players were experienced enough to know that.

“And the players were really good at that tonight. I’m really pleased and proud of them. They were roared on by fantastic support for a midweek game and I’m delighted to get the prize of three points.

“The way games go at this stage of the season, teams are fighting for one prize or the other, you just have to be good at what the game is asking and I ask that of the players all of the time, and tonight they were brilliant at everything I asked them in terms of winning headers, knockdowns and fight and character after conceding.

“They were two terrific finishes for him (Norwood), and I’m really pleased for him and the group. It is a terrific win for us.”

Top scorer Norwood fired Tranmere ahead after 10 minutes, reacting first after goalkeeper Scott Brown parried Kieron Morris’ drive, to find the top-right corner with his left-footed finish.

Norwood extended Rovers’ lead after 56 minutes, latching on to Connor Jennings’ pass to drive left-footed across goal and past Brown to find the bottom-right corner.

Whitfield pulled one back on the hour, striking low in to the bottom-left corner beyond goalkeeper Scott Davies before the midfielder saw a goal ruled out as Vale slumped to a third defeat under new boss John Askey to remain 20th in the division, four points above the relegation zone.

Askey said: “I think the pleasing thing was, after we went two down, rather than crumbling, we have dug in there and scored a good goal and the supporters were behind us, but I can’t complain about the players’ efforts and the difference in the game was Tranmere’s centre forward.

“I think we started off well enough and then they scored a goal, a well-taken goal and we went flat from then on, and no matter what goes on, you have to have the confidence as a squad.

“We addressed the mistakes after half-time and we started to cause them problems in the second-half.

“All I can do is keep getting the maximum out of the players that we have got, in the three games that we have played, the lads have had a real go tonight and if we can continue with that effort, I am confident.”

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