Ian Holloway said that his Swindon Town players have learned to play like the fans would after their 3-1 victory over Tranmere Rovers.

Swindon Town were trailing from the seventh minute to the 87th minute after Josh Davison scored directly from a cross but Cameron Norman saw yellow twice around the hour-mark to give Town a route back in.

They were made to wait but once Paul Glatzel smashed in from close range there was no going back as Harry Smith poked home and then Kabongo Tshimanga converted a stoppage-time penalty.

Holloway said that Town's late salvo was more than deserved with the pressure that they put Nigel Adkins' side under.

He said: "The goal just knocked the stuffing out of us and we didn't understand where the space was and we just looked all over the place.

"Luckily we got to half time only one goal down and we spoke about what I felt we needed to do.

"I put another attacker on and took a defender off and I wanted the front three to link things, we had a plan and we executed it brilliantly.

"Whoever I put on knew what we wanted them to do against what they wanted to do, which was kick us.

"We managed to use the extra man really well and everybody that I put on made a difference.

"That is what I have been saying about having different skillsets and we needed different things to break them down.

"With Joel [Cotterill] and Danny [Ward] they couldn't really cope with them.

"I am just delighted that we managed to get the equaliser when we did because it gave us enough time to go on and win it.

"The momentum was with us and anyone in football would have known that we deserved to win that game on the balance and we did that in the end.

"They are playing for the badge like a fan would and that is what I believe in and I would pay to watch us right now."

Despite the end result, Holloway was frustrated with how Swindon toiled for much of the game to break down Tranmere.

He said: "I can't tell you how chuffed I am today because on another day with another group of people, they might not have been strong enough to do that.

"If they can just stick to what we are saying and why we are saying it when we were trying to be like Real Madrid.

"We aren't Real Madrid yet, what were we trying to do? I didn't recognise some of that stuff in the first half.

"We needed to keep it simple, give it to those players, and do your job back there.

"They made it really tough for us, they changed shape and played in a way that we were not expecting.

"That caught us on the hop a bit and my team didn't really get to grips with that during the first half."