Oldham 0-3 Hartlepool

Hartlepool United striker Denis Behan has praised the club's excellent away form which has seen them win three and draw one of the first four trips.

In contrast Pools have lost all five of their home fixtures in league and cup but Behan, 25, is confident an improvement can easily be achieved.

"We've been solid and done the right things at the right times away from home," he told BBC Tees.

"If we start doing that at home we'll be a force to be reckoned with."

The confident Irishman scored a spectacular goal in Friday's 3-0 defeat of Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park, thumping home a free-kick from distance past Latics keeper Dean Brill to seal the win.

And Behan admitted his team-mates have already begun to appreciate his threat from dead-ball situations.

"Anything from 20 or 30 yards out, the boys know to leave it (the free-kicks) to me," he added.

"If I get it on target, it always has a chance. I know with the power that I hit the ball, once you get it on target, the keeper will have to make a save and some of the boys will be following in for the knockdown or something like that."

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