SWINDON Town head coach Luke Williams believes they are giving themselves the best possible chance of survival after their 3-1 win over Gillingham tonight.

The victory was Town’s only back-to-back success of the season so far and their first since the same time last season, when they ended a run of four victories with a win over Doncaster on March 1.

Town suffered a setback early on as Cody McDonald put the visitors ahead after 10 minutes, something that would have seen Williams’ side capitulate earlier in the campaign.

However, Williams has seen a new side to his team and has likened it to a throw-back to last season after Rohan Ince, Jonathan Obika and Raphael Branco secured another vital three points in their bid to beat the drop.

“We have got just enough time to do this,” he said, when asked about the timing of their revival.

“If we stay focused and keep working every day, we have got a chance.

“The belief (was the best aspect of the performance). We’ve all seen the group struggle to deal with a setback.

“There was a time in the season where we hadn’t won when we’d been behind, we’d never managed to claw back and we changed that convincingly tonight.

“It feels more like last season, when we were capable of winning from the front, winning from behind and we were able to score goals early, score goals in the last minute.

“We feel like a threat all the time.”

Town spurned a number of chances in the first half but as has been the case in the most testing of times this season, Williams kept a cool head and was able to re-group his troops at the break for a second-half onslaught that the visitors were unable to handle.

“As a coach you have to try and convince the players of what you are seeing from the side,” added Williams, who is still putting his stamp back on a squad he took back control of last month.

“You’re calmer and the players are more emotional. They’re 1-0 down at half-time and there is doubt there.

“You have to try to convince them that if the performance is good and you can be sane in mind to recognise that, I tried to convince them and told them I believed if we maintained the intensity and maintained the attacking edge to our game, that we would score two or three.

“Hopefully that will help them to believe even more in the message I am telling them.”

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