Cooper pleased with clean sheet

Swindon soared to third place in League One with a 3-0 win at Chesterfield but Mark Cooper was more pleased to keep a clean sheet.

The Robins arrived in Derbyshire without a shut-out in their last five matches and having conceded five goals in their last two games. But quickfire goals from Yaser Kasim and Nathan Byrne did the damage in the first half before substitute Andy Williams completed the scoring after 70 minutes. "It's nice to move up in the table but the clean sheet is the most pleasing thing," said Cooper. "I thought we played quite well. It was a tight game to start with but we always looked a threat. Our goalkeeper made a couple of good saves for us but I felt once we went in front we were going to be difficult to catch because we always had that threat with pace on the break and we looked like we could score a lot of the time. "I'm pleased it was 3-0. I'm more pleased with the nil than the three to be honest. After the last two games there were a few doubts from outside the camp - definitely not in it - but we worked on having our wing-backs more balanced to give the back three more security and I thought we looked quite solid. "I thought they were all tremendous, they are all tired out on their feet. They gave it their all and we're pleased we are back up and running but the most pleasing thing is, as I said, the clean sheet." Chesterfield will feel they were by far the better side in the first half. But missing chances at one end and having a soft centre defensively is not a good combination and the Spireites, after making an encouraging start in the third tier following promotion, have now won only one of their last nine matches. However, Blues boss Paul Cook does not feel that too much is wrong at the Proact Stadium. "Swindon are the best team we have played this season, by a long way," said Cook. "We are playing well enough, we're just not getting the results at the minute. "We started the game terrifically well, we were pressing high up the pitch, we looked a threat, we had a couple of good chances and we were doing all the things we wanted to do. But we always knew Swindon are liable to hit you on the break and once they scored that gave them more confidence and sapped the confidence out of our lads. "It's a long season and we'll keep working at it because to be a progressive club sometimes you have to take little steps backwards. We've had a bad night in terms of the result but in the endeavour of our players - they worked very hard. "We want to be a good club and good clubs have ups and downs. I take my hat off to Swindon, that's how the game should be played. They caught us and they hurt us but when we had our chances we haven't hurt them. "We have no problems. We're aware we're not on a good run and of course you worry when you're not winning games but that's for you media lads to discuss and our job is to prepare for the next game."