CARETAKER manager Les Parry insists Tranmere are beginning to turn results around because they are doing football’s basics right – not because their luck has changed.

Rovers moved off the bottom of the League One table with a 1-0 win over Brentford at Prenton Park. The victory stretched an unbeaten run to four games and the clean sheet was the fourth they have kept in the last six outings.

Parry said: "I would like to think we are seeing a genuine turnaround in our fortunes. From my first game (as caretaker) I said that I did not believe in luck.

"If you defend well for 90 minutes and you take your chances you win games.

"If you concede goals, you lose games. That has absolutely nothing to do with luck.

"I'm sticking with that philosophy.

"We defended well against Brentford and took one of our chances. There was no luck involved in our 3-3 draw at Huddersfield last Tuesday, either.

"All of the good results we have picked up recently have been thoroughly deserved.

Craig Curran's 60th minute goal from a well- rehearsed free-kick routine secured Tranmere's fourth league win at Prenton Park. As well as climbing off the foot of the division, Rovers moved to within five points of a place of safety.

"We needed a result," Parry said.

"The manner of the performance was particularly pleasing. It was a scrappy game but we were so resilient at the end. We were winning every second ball. As you could see, the goal was straight off the training ground. It was really well worked."

Parry added: "It was a funny first-half. We gave away a lot of unnecessary free-kicks and corners. Yet we had all the chances. We should have converted one or two.

"We started slowly in the second-half, then got a stranglehold on the game. It was backs to the wall towards the end but it is always going to be like that for a team in our position because we are so desperate for the win."