"But I think all the squad's contributed to gettting a really positive result," says Cooper after Shaymen's win at Boston

Andrew Oluwabori's first minute goal was enough to earn Halifax the win, and help make up for their FA Cup defeat at Oldham the week before.

But it wasn't without some hairy moments as Boston piled on the pressure after the interval.

When asked whether the hosts could justifiably feel hard done-by not to come away with anything from the game, Cooper said: "Yeah, potentially.

"I think Sam's come up with a good save that he tipped onto the post in the second-half at a big moment, which was probably pivotal in terms of momentum.

"But I think all the squad's contributed to gettting a really positive result.

"In terms of clear-cut chances, there probably wasn't much in it for either team, so it's not one we've run away with.

"But we know the performances on the road in this league are hard.

"On the back of a heavy defeat, conceding goals, we knew they'd be right at it and they gave us a tough test.

"But we stuck to our guns, stuck to the game plan well and were able to see it out at the end when they threw the kitchen sink at us."

After shipping plenty of goals in recent games, Town were back to their best defensively.

"It's been the clear message all week," Cooper said.

"The trade off to some of the style in what we're doing, creating more opportunities and scoring more goals, it does mean we're more vulnerable to counter-attacks and teams hitting us on the break.

"So we just switched the dual a bit to make sure we're a bit more organised and resilient without the ball.

"And then we could break on the counter-attack when we needed to.

"We studied what they're like here and how they play, and they have a lot of the ball, they get it into the box, they keep the ball alive in the box a lot, they don't really take quick shots, it's passing it around the box to look for chances.

"So we knew we needed to be really organised without the ball and take our chances, and doing it so early helps massively."

Oluwabori got Town off to the perfect start with a goal after 60 seconds.

"It goes back to what we said about having energy and being organised and resilient, which are the values and the work we did on the training ground," Cooper said.

"We knew that from the warm-up and straight into the first minute, we needed to be better, more switched on and more aggressive.

"It doesn't always come off and we've had opportunities in games in the opening few minutes, but we know our first-half form hasn't been good enough recently, so to put in a performance like that first-half where we were pretty much in control, we were rarely threatened, was really pleasing.

"But then you know from a side in the position they're in, with the threats they have at the top end of the pitch, they put two strikers up top and put more bodies in-behind for second balls and then get deliveries in.

"We needed to weather that, but we got off to a flying start which was exactly the plan.

"You never know if you'll score so early but that was the intention, and we saw it in the warm-up when the lads got out there that they were on it."

Halifax had to withstand some strong pressure in the second-half, with Will Smith clearing a shot off the line and Boston also hitting the post.

"We tried to push to get up the pitch to get the second," Cooper said.

"Positive changes were made, not just to sit back, we were protecting players a bit in terms of yellow cards and trying to avoid a red, which obviously we protected two of them but not the third in Adan.

"Like for like subs, and then we just felt with the balls coming into the box a bit more, we needed our centre halves closer together so it was a tactivcal one for Adam to come on and change to a back three, but still allow us to keep two strikers up top and give us an outlet.

"When we did regain it we were still able to get the ball up the pitch for spells as well."

The only blemish for Town was the dismissal of Adan George, who replaced the injured Max Wright, for two bookings, one for kicking the ball away and the other for dissent

"Neither are his character or personality, he's professional, very humble, quiet," Cooper said.

"I didn't see enough in the second one without watching it back to think it was a second yellow.

"I think he's toed the ball away for the first one as the referee has blown the whistle.

"It's a shame because in large patches today he was a real threat and he had a couple pf shooting opportunities he'll be disappointed he didn't do better with.

"But he got us up the pitch and stretched it, and kept us there with Adam Senior backing up behind the ball.

"It's a slight tarnish but we have to look at the positives.

"The away fans who travel with us know what we're aboiut on the road, we know it's a relentless league in terms of travel and the styles you have to come up against.

"But in the six away games in the league so far, it's four clean sheets, just two goals against and we've played some decent stuff at times, so there's not too much we can complain about.

"It can often be attributed that we're a half away from a crisis at this club but we look at the bigger picture, we work and we graft and we sacrificed a lot to be able to try and put things right this week, and that was a performance on the back of us being disappointing last week that we let ourselves down in some of the basics.

"But it can happen, that's football. It doesn't happen often to us but you look at the league and that top seven, which we're in now, it's happened to teams in there where they've shipped more than three in a game.

"So to come back as strong as we did with a clean sheet is great."