Kabongo Tshimanga said that Swindon Town never feel beaten anymore after he made a huge impact coming off the bench in the 3-1 win over Tranmere Rovers.

When Tshimanga was summoned from the bench with 12 minutes remaining, Town were a goal down after Josh Davison’s early cross-slash-shot, although Cameron Norman had been dismissed for receiving two yellow cards.

But the Peterborough United loanee drove into the area to create Paul Glatzel’s equaliser, before finding Harry Smith at the back post for the go-ahead goal and then sealing it with a stoppage-time penalty.

After the game, Tshimanga said that with the belief Swindon have accrued in the last two months, they never feel like getting a win is beyond them.

He said: “[Do you ever feel like you are beaten at this point?] No.

“To be fair, I think that the self-belief has always been there as a group but a lot of the games that we were losing were from our own mistakes.

“Whereas now I think we have nullified that down a lot and made sure that we are making fewer errors and we are just more effective in the other half.

“We know as a team where our strengths and weaknesses are and we just look to maximise the strengths that we have and that has got us a lot of the wins we have been having.

“The manager had done really well to put that self-belief in the players, I think there was a lack of mentality that we could come back in a lot of these games.

“We just know that we have got enough quality in the side to turn games around, it doesn’t matter if we are one goal down or two goals down.

“We have got that drive and we have got that hunger and I am grateful to the manager for not just putting that in myself but all of the players.”

Tshimanga was one of a number of players to make a positive impact off the bench for Swindon as they pulled off a miraculous turnaround during the final three minutes at The Nigel Eady County Ground.

The striker said that he couldn’t remember a time when he had been able to have such a big impact after coming on as a substitute.

He said: “I am usually on the other end of it, to be fair, as I am used to starting games but I was just delighted to help the team.

“I am delighted to have the faith of the manager to bring me on to help change the game and luckily, not just myself, but me and the other subs were able to do that.

“It is tough when you are on the bench as you just want to get on the pitch, you can’t switch off on the side, you have to stay focused and watch to see the areas where you feel that you can come on and hurt their back line.”