Micky Mellon said Oldham Athletic showed "every ingredient" needed to secure what he described as a "massive win" over Forest Green Rovers.

Both teams went into the game on a six-game unbeaten run, with Forest Green second in the table on goal difference before kick-off.

But it was Latics who stretched their sequence thanks to another Mike Fondop winner - a spectacular ninth-minute volley from the edge of the box.

"It was a massive win. It always does feel big here at Oldham, we want to win games of football, but coming up against a team like Forest Green and knowing it was going to be a real battle, a tough game, and getting the three points is terrific," said Mellon.

"First and foremost it's credit to the players, a determination to get results and that's what we had in abundance.

"And then you need a good support to keep driving them on and we had that as well.

"Every ingredient in order to try to get a result we had. The boys coming off the bench did a shift for us as well. We tweaked the shape a bit, which I'm really pleased about because that shows their knowledge and their understanding and we got over the line I thought relatively comfortably in the end in a really tough game."

Of the goal, Fondop's third in as many games and fourth in five, Mellon said: "It really is a goal to grace any game. It was a fantastic strike; a brilliant strike, good build-up play to it and as soon as he hit it it just stayed hit. It was a goal befitting of a good contest between two good teams."