MORTON manager Jonatan Johansson hopes his players can keep that winning feeling going against Alloa Athletic today and continue their strong home form.

The Ton have suffered from inconsistency during Johansson’s reign, but they have picked up victories in three of their last four outings – winning their last two matches and scoring seven goals in the process.

They face the only part-time team in the league today in Alloa as they look to extend their winning run.

Johansson says he has faith in his side to reproduce recent form and wants that same desire shown to secure a positive result.

He told the Tele: “The players should be confident and happy – they should be up for it.

“The confidence among them will rightly be high. We can look at the last two performances and look at what gave us success and build on that.

“That’s how you get a level of consistency in this game and we want to keep picking up points.”

Morton have been in great goalscoring form at home, losing only one game so far, against Ayr United by a 5-1 scoreline back in September.

The Greenock side have scored in every home fixture so far this season in both the Championship and Betfred Cup, finding the net 19 times in seven games at Cappielow.

He added: “It’s important to have a strong home record in any league. It’s something we’ll focus on and it’s something we’ll try to improve on.”

In recent matches Morton have set up in a 5-3-2 formation, with Reghan Tumilty and Jack Iredale acting as wing-backs to help provide width for the team.

It has proved effective against both Queen of the South and Partick Thistle, and the manager revealed it is a formula likely to be used again today against Jim Goodwin’s team.

He added: “You have to have your own identity and focus on your own play and because we’ve been so successful in the last two games I’ll probably stick with the same formation.”

Morton now have no midweek fixtures pencilled in for the rest of the season, unless games are cancelled or moved due to cup ties.

In the last month the Cappielow men have travelled over 1,000 miles for matches, and faced a difficult run of three games in seven days, with two of those away at Dingwall and Dumfries in the space of four days.

While Johansson usually prefers a busy schedule, he admitted his players got some much-needed rest at the start of the week.

He said: “I like playing games but we don’t have a massive squad and we had a few injuries as well.

“There was a lot of fatigue within the team at the beginning of month, so it was nice to have a quieter week.”