Chris Kinnear praised Dover's team ethic after Saturday's impressive 2-0 home win over Vanarama National League play-off rivals Gateshead at Crabble.

Two-goal Ricky Miller once again grabbed most of the headlines - his superb double took his season's tally to a remarkable 39 - but Whites boss Kinnear was keen to stress that it had been another excellent team performance.

The defeat was Gateshead's first in 11 matches with the result enabling Kinnear's men to go above the Tynesiders as they climbed from eighth to sixth.

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Kinnear, whose side are just two points behind fifth-placed Aldershot with a game in hand, explained: "Ricky takes the headlines because he scores and he deserves to but the rest of the lads deserve it as well, and not just the ones who played today but the ones who are part of the squad."

Gateshead started the day one place and one point clear of Whites in the play-off race, but Neil Aspin's men were very much second-best to Whites for whom Miller also hit a post and forced two other flying saves from visiting keeper James Montgomery.

Kinnear said the win was the perfect way to bounce back after the 1-0 midweek defeat at Tranmere.

He added: "Things were a little edgy (at the start of the game). We'd been away on Tuesday all the way to Tranmere and I was worried really we were going to be a bit tired but to be fair I thought the lads, every one of them was really focused.

"I think we won quite comfortably to be honest. They had one chance which Mitch (keeper Mitch Walker saved) but they did not have any others and we were disappointed really because after 10 or 15 minutes of the second half we could have three or four up."

Dover's six-game run-in includes key away games against play-off rivals Aldershot (Easter Monday) and Barrow (on the final day of the regular season) and he says he's confident his players can hold their nerve as the pressure intensifies.

He explained: "A lot of the players have been with us a little while now and they've got used to us getting to this part of the season and being pushing for something.

"They are used to playing big games now. It's taken a while because they're not experienced in terms of playing lots of Football League games but they are experienced in winning games at this level.

"Everyone's in good spirits. We went through a bit of an iffy spell, everyone does but if you allow yourself to get down and allow people to get on your back you don't get out of it.

"We didn't do that we tried to solve the problems and work a way as a squad of turning it round and that's what they've done."