John Ebbrell believes Oldham Athletic have given themselves a good foundation for the remainder of the season.

Latics earned back to back league wins for the first time this season, and in almost a calendar year, after goals from Josef Yarney and Timmy Abraham in either half secured a 2-0 win over York City.

It has opened up a five-point gap between themselves and the bottom four, having picked up seven points from their last three league games.

But assistant boss Ebbrell says it is imperative that they keep looking to build on their unbeaten start to 2023.

"I thought that was a real, good forward step tonight. But we've got to do it again on Saturday and then again, and that's just the way it is," he said.

"In this league there are a lot of fixtures and there will be a lot of Saturday-Tuesdays, which we like, so it will just be important to keep a level of performance.

"It was a good performance, the lads performed well from start to finish, scored two good goals and we deserved to win. It's probably our best from start to finish at home for a while.

"We've been wanting to be more consistent and it was a good consistent performance on the back of a couple of good games, but we need to keep that going. So while we're pleased with tonight's result we're already thinking about Aldershot and being consistent and getting another good performance there."

Latics took the lead through recent signing Josef Yarney, who started at centre back in the absence of the suspended Peter Clarke.

Ellis Chapman sent a free kick into the box, which was headed down by Mike Fondop, goalkeeper Ethan spilled it, and was injured in the process of Yarney firing in from close range.

Ross was replaced by Maison Campbell a day after he returned from Telford on loan, and the 19-year-old did not have too much to do until Timmy Abraham came on, and with his first touch made it 2-0 after Adam Crookes' failed to clear Jordan Clarke's long pass.

Ebbrell agreed that it felt like momentum was building, but added: "I think it's important to ride that when you can, but tonight is just one game and Saturday is really important so we need to recover, prepare, look to win that game or at least get something from it to keep that going.

"The consistency, the level of performance, we'll be going there to look to win and perform.

"For us our messages have been about good habits, creating good habits with the players, training, matches, professionalism so that improves performance, results will come on the back of that so I think looking at it tonight, we're not getting carried away, it's one game and a massive game for us again on Saturday. We want to start looking up as opposed to worrying about what's around us.

"Bit by bit we're looking a bigger, stronger, more unified team."