Micky Mellon wants even more attacking edge from Oldham despite win over Swindon

Micky Mellon believes his Oldham side needs to sharpen its cutting edge, despite a resounding 3-0 home win against Swindon.

Summer signing Elliott Nevitt opened his goalscoring account for the club in the 41st minute and two late goals – a penalty from Calum Kavanagh and Mike Fondop’s screamer – sealed victory.

“If there is one criticism, we need to be more clinical when we get those types of chances – we have got to take them,” he said.

“When it is 1-0, they (Swindon) are always in the game as they have quality players, but we managed to kill the game.”

Mellon was referring to the 26 goal attempts Oldham had in a one-sided clash.

Latics’ manager was delighted how his side made it back-to-back home wins – scoring five goals and conceding none.

He said: “I was very pleased how from the first whistle to the last we were good with and without the ball.

“It was a composed performance against a good team – and we managed to score three goals.

“We probably could and should have taken chances early in the game.”

Mellon added they learned from last season when Swindon won 2-1 at Boundary Park.

“We spoke about that game when for 15-20 minutes we were blown away and to make sure we weren’t caught in the trap again. All credit to the players,” he said.

Mellon added he has been pleased with his side’s consistency in the opening three games – even though they lost at Colchester where Gus Scott-Morris’ sending off, when they were ahead, proved pivotal.

“We had to win after how disappointed we were last week when the game was taken away from us by the referee,” he said.

Mellon was also delighted that all three strikers – Nevitt, Kavanagh and Fondop – found the net.

But he criticised Fondop for wanting to take the penalty he had won for the team.

“I am not happy about him causing a commotion about taking the penalty, something I have made clear to him as he is not our penalty taker,” added Mellon.

Swindon manager Ian Holloway admitted his side were second best.

“We were outfought, outworked and outplayed by Oldham – I apologise to our fans,” he said.

Holloway pointed to the loss of Billy Kirkman and Matty Virtue through injury – they dropped out having trained with the team on Thursday – as hurting them.

He said: “It was a disastrous day because we were nowhere near good enough. They were chasing us like I want us to chase teams. It was a rude awakening.

“We are a new group and haven’t trained as I would have liked because of injuries. We were like a bunch of strangers at the end. We have an awful lot of work to do.”