Jimmy McNulty pleased to see Stockport getting results he believes they deserve

Jimmy McNulty believes Stockport are starting to get the consistency of results their performances deserve after they beat Bromley 1-0 to make it three consecutive Sky Bet League One wins and move up to second in the table.

In-form striker Kyle Wootton headed home from Jack Diamond’s cross to secure all three points for the Hatters and take them into the automatic promotion places.

And having started the season by following up a win with a loss on three occasions, McNulty is delighted to see his team put together a hat-trick of victories.

“The performances when we won, lost, won, lost were outstanding in my opinion, but results don’t always correlate,” he said.

“I think if the game would have been 4-0 today nobody would have disagreed with it.

“But it (the ball) doesn’t always go in the net that way unfortunately.

“If we’d been stung today, I think I would have disagreed with it but I think everyone feels the worthy victors won the game today.”

McNulty was particularly pleased with his side’s game management.

“We had a high level of control throughout the game, I thought, and completely suppressed an opponent that I do have a high level of respect for actually,” he added.

“Their ability to weaponise set plays, weaponise long throws, means that the territory game is a constant one and I thought our starvation of the opponent’s opportunities, the game territory – which is high, high level bravery, amazing regain skills – was present throughout the day.

“And I think if we’d have converted the level of control that we had, which I’m super pleased with, into more domination and more goals, I don’t think anyone would have complained.”

Defeat for Bromley sees them fall deeper into the relegation zone having now recorded back-to-back losses.

Boss Andy Woodman could not fault his team’s endeavour but felt they fell short on quality when it really mattered.

“I think we were up against a really good team,” he said.

“Their stats suggest they’re number one and two for everything, so for us to come here and open up the game after we’d gone to Sheffield Wednesday (where they lost 7-2) and a couple of other games, we can’t do that – I think it would be suicide.

“We’ve tried to contain them. I thought we did it really well actually. We made sure that we made it difficult for them, tried to sort of stay in the game which we have to do at places like this.

“And then they had a little moment where we switched off and they had a little bit of magic, and that’s the difference.

“(When) you’ve got a striker and a player that hangs a ball up like that, you’re in trouble.

“And that’s the difference at one end and at the other end we aren’t quite doing that, and we haven’t quite got that little bit of detail, that little bit of quality.”