Gavin Gunning said that Nnamdi Ofoborh added the element that Swindon Town have been missing in his performance against Barrow AFC.

The 24-year-old arrived at the County Ground ahead of Town facing Notts County, in which he came on as a late substitute, before getting his first start away at Sutton United three days later.

Gunning had initially said that he would be cautious with the midfielder given the heart problems that had caused his departure from Rangers last summer but has now started him in consecutive matches and he even played the full 90 minutes at the SO Legal Stadium.

The interim head coach was raving about the former Bournemouth midfielder’s display in Cumbria and believed that he had brought a dimension to Swindon’s game that had not been there before.

He said: “As I have said, it is not a token, he wouldn’t be here if he didn’t have what happened to him before with his heart.

“He was seriously ill and he has come back from that and he has been fortunate to have the best heart people in the whole world looking after him.

“We have just got to be happy that we have got him and he just brings a different aspect to our game.”

Gunning has been honest that he has been searching for the best shape for the team, having initially switched to a back four and then reverting to a back three and has generally used a midfield with a double pivot and an attacking midfielder ahead of them.

The introduction of Ofoborh saw the shift to a different midfield shape, with the Nigerian youth international playing as a holding midfielder behind Jake Cain and George McEachran, adding an extra body to the midfield.

He said: “You have to mould yourself into a shape that suits the players and I guess that I have been trying to do it where they fit into my shape.

“I think it was very good to get Cain and McEachran in the team, they are very good footballers who manipulate the ball really well.

“Nnamdi would probably rather play in one of those two positions but at the minute with Saidou being out and Dawson as well, we have been juggling what we still have because our squad is where it is at.

“But I can only be pleased with that and how those three worked today.”