Charlie Adam praised Fleetwood’s “complete” performance as they claimed a 2-0 win at home to Northampton.
The victory – only a second in their last 13 games – keeps the Cod Army’s Sky Bet League One survival hopes just about alive, though they remain six points adrift of the safety zone with just three games left to play.
Boss Adam was clearly proud of what he also described as the best he had seen from his team since replacing Lee Johnson at the turn of the year.
“It was a complete performance from us today so I have to be delighted with that,” Adam said. “Right from the start of the game we were at it.
“We maintained a good shape throughout and we were well organised against a good Northampton team.
“Maybe two goals wasn’t enough – I definitely think we should have had more as we were so dominant.
“I’m just happy to take the three points.
“I always felt in control after the first 30 minutes when we just blew them away.
“This leaves us with three games now, and we need more clean sheets like this if we’re to have a chance of staying up.
“We can celebrate a brilliant win tonight but then straight away we have to re-focus on another huge game on Tuesday night.
“We’ve got to go to one of the best teams and toughest grounds in the league in Peterborough, but we have to go there with confidence now.”
Fleetwood were in control at half-time thanks to goals from Promise Omochere and Bosun Lawal.
Cobblers manager Jon Brady made a triple change at the interval and his side improved after the restart.
Ben Fox and Marc Leonard created decent opportunities but they rarely threatened a consolation goal.
Brady was disappointed with the outcome, and said: “I’ve already told the players that I’m not prepared to let the season just fade away because of the position we’re in.
“But fair play to Fleetwood today. They came out with all guns blazing and in the bad conditions here, we found it difficult to get out.
“I think it’s fair to say they out-fought us in the opening 20 or 30 minutes and they have got some really good players, despite their position in the table.
“We’ve conceded two poor goals, though. They came about due to our own doing, it was sloppy from us.
“It was quite difficult and they played the conditions well – we didn’t.
“It was as simple as that really. We overplayed things too much and with them getting the two goals quite early, we faced an uphill battle.
“We just didn’t do the basics right far too often. We didn’t get the ball forward quick enough or often enough.”
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