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Tranmere played host to Colchester United this afternoon for a 3pm kick-off in their latest fixture in the 2022/23 League Two season.
Ahead of the game, Micky Mellon said, “The players are obviously buoyed by Wednesday but what we need to do now is take the energy from that and the standards from that and find the consistency, that’s the next stage for these young players now.
“I said to the players that they’ve been outed now. Everybody knows what you’re capable of and you need to hit the same intensity again. They can live with that intensity for the whole game because they did it on Wednesday and finished the game very strongly. If we hit those intensities, we should be performing all or most of the time.
“We have to be fair on the players and I’d never ask them to do things that I know they’re not capable of doing. We now have a level that we can measure against and we’ll remind the players of that.
Match Report: Tranmere Rovers v Colchester United
Tranmere secured their second League Two win of the season with two goals against Colchester in an otherwise uneventful game.
Rovers came off the starting blocks in fine form and with just four minutes on the clock at Prenton Park, they took the lead through a Josh Hawkes goal.
Josh Hawkes made his left footed shot from the centre of the box count when if found the bottom right corner, assisted by a Kane Hemmings cross.
Less than 10 minutes later, Colchester keeper, Kieran O’Hara, failed to control Reece McAlear’s low, long-range shot, but there were no other Tranmere players bear by to scoop up another goal.
Colchester came close to equalising in the 43rd minute but Neill Byrne produced a fantastic block of Frank Nouble’s shot from the six-yard box.
Tranmere retained the one-goal advantage as the half time whistle blew.
Rovers started the second half with plenty of enthusiasm, but this soon dwindled and most of the remainder of the game was, to be blunt, a bit dull.
However, Tranmere secured the victory and three points when sub Jake Burton made his header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner count, having been on the pitch for less than three minutes.
Tranmere visit Leyton Orient in the next game of the League Two season on Saturday 3 September.
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Fans’ Twitter reaction
3 points thank you very much 🎉 #TRFC #SWA— Katy Sloan 💙 (@Evil_Katt) August 27, 2022
3 points thank you very much 🎉 #TRFC #SWA
Such a poor game today, both side's played poorly imo but three points is three points and it made the ticket purchase worth it to see Jake Burton score. #TRFC— EthanHoijord🇸🇱⚽️ (@EthanHoijord3) August 27, 2022
Such a poor game today, both side's played poorly imo but three points is three points and it made the ticket purchase worth it to see Jake Burton score. #TRFC
Decent performance there, was a bit of a hot and cold game with us dropping off and chances where better teams would punish us. Need a few bodies in before the deadline though.— TRFC Statto 🇸🇱 (@TrfcStatto) August 27, 2022
Decent performance there, was a bit of a hot and cold game with us dropping off and chances where better teams would punish us. Need a few bodies in before the deadline though.
Important 3 points and made up Jake Burton but OMG that was dull 😴 #TRFC #swa— Pete B 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@happytyskie) August 27, 2022
Important 3 points and made up Jake Burton but OMG that was dull 😴 #TRFC #swa
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Line-ups
Tranmere Rovers – Formation 4-4-21 Ross Doohan GK2 Josh Dacres-Cogley DF3 Ethan Bristow DF14 Jordan Turnbull DF19 Neill Byrne DF8 Reece McAlear MF4 Lee O’Connor MF16 Jon Nolan MF11 Josh Hawkes MF20 Elliott Nevitt FW10 Kane Hemmings (C) FW
Substitutes23 Mateusz Hewelt SUB15 Ben Hockenhull SUB29 Max Fisher SUB17 Rhys Hughes SUB22 Paul Lewis SUB6 Chris Merrie SUB27 Jake Burton SUB
ManagerMicky Mellon
Match OfficialsReferee: Rebecca WelshAssistants: Oliver Bickle and Nik BarnardFourth official: Matthew Parry
Colchester United – Formation 4-2-3-113 Kieran O’Hara GK22 Junior Tchamadeu DF3 Ryan Clampin DF4 Luke Chambers (C) DF6 Tom Dallison DF33 Marley Marshall Miranda MF19 Alex Newby MF8 Cole Skuse MF14 Noah Chilvers MF45 Frank Nouble MF11 Freddie Sears FW
Substitutes1 Sam Hornby SUB27 Cameron Coxe SUB35 Billy Cracknell SUB23 Daniel Chesters SUB7 Luke Hannant SUB20 Charlie Owens SUB24 John Akinde SUB
ManagerWayne Brown
Attendance: 5041
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