Gavin Gunning pleased to start Swindon tenure with win over Bradford

Gavin Gunning was pleased with how his Swindon side prevented “manic” Bradford from playing during their 2-0 win in Sky Bet League Two.

Gunning kicked off his stint as Swindon’s interim manager until the end of the season with all three points.

He said: “It was one of those games when neither side is ever going to have a lot of possession because Bradford are very route-one.

“It is always going to be about the second balls and you are never going to dominate because they will get bodies around the ball and it is manic.

“It is not great to watch but the boys did so well to deal with that and then go and show their quality.

“From one to 11 it was fantastic application, actually all 18 of them really, the subs that came on knew their jobs fantastically well.

“Nobody sulked and that made me very happy, but this was just the start.”

Swindon had a penalty after 16 minutes when Paul Glatzel was brought down in the area. Charlie Austin stepped up and emphatically dispatched his third goal in as many games.

Bradford could have levelled late in the first half as Brad Halliday floated a ball into Andy Cook in the middle, but he could not get enough power behind his header to beat Jack Bycroft, who got down
quickly to save.

Swindon doubled their lead in first-half stoppage time as Glatzel ran through down the right and got away from his marker before giving Dawson Devoy a tap-in at the far post.

Graham Alexander was frustrated with the lack of cutting edge in his side’s performance as they once again drew a blank.

The Bradford boss said: “We’ve been blunt, we haven’t had an edge and intensity to our game.

“We’ve let the fans down today. I feel we have anyway. You know they’ve come down in numbers again and given great support.

“But we are nowhere near the level that they expect or we expect. There’s no players in there now thinking that was anywhere near good enough.

“We know where we have to improve. We’ll have a chat on Monday.

“We haven’t gone overboard today because I know they are a good bunch of guys. We just need to help each other improve.

“Bradford City fans want to see a team that’s really aggressive and on the front foot and wants to attack and wants to create pressure on the opponent.

“And that’s what we’ve been giving them for a long, long time until the last two weeks.”