Newport County have seven matches left – four at home and three away – in their quest to snatch a League Two play-off place.

The Exiles are 13th, six points outside the top seven, after their goalless draw against Tranmere Rovers, but have at least one game in hand on the teams above them.

They could jump to ninth by beating Swindon Town at Rodney Parade on Tuesday and manager Mike Flynn says: “We have to keep going.

“They’re all big games, all of them. 

“No extra pressure on Tuesday whatsoever. We have a game at home and if we win, great. If we don’t, we go onto Saturday.

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“We’re doing well but it is frustrating.

“I don’t want to look back when the season is over and rue a couple of games which are still doing my head in even now.”

Flynn was delighted with his teams ‘excellent’ defensive performance in the 0-0 draw against Rovers at Rodney Parade.

County thought they had snatched victory when Joss Labadie fired into the roof of the net late on, only for the offside flag to be raised and cut short celebrations.

“The boys defended excellently and the effort they put in was unbelievable,” said Flynn. 

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Tranmere hit the wood worth twice, while Newport also created good chances.

Padraig Amond recovered from a fractured elbow make his 100th appearance for County, going on as an 83rd minute substitute, while Dan Butler played his 150th Newport match.

“I wasn’t tempted to bring Padraig on earlier,” said Flynn. “We felt Ade Azeez would stretch Tranmere with his pace and he did that. It just didn’t quite happen for him when he got into those positions.”

Flynn made one change to the starting side from the 3-1 success at Yeovil Town. Harry McKirdy was on the bench and Flynn rewarded Keanu Marsh-Brown for a scintillating substitute appearance in Somerset by naming him in the starting line-up.

Chances were few and far between for either team and County kept Tranmere’s 29-goal striker James Norwood quiet.

Newport County AFC (4-4-2): Day, Butler, Demetriou, O’Brien, Poole, Kennedy (Dolan 69), Labadie, Sheehan, Willmott (Amond 83), Matt, Marsh-Brown (Azeez 62). Subs not used: Pipe, Randall, Crofts, McKirdy

Tranmere Rovers (4-2-3-1): Davies, Ridehalgh, Ellis, Monthe, Caprice, Smith (Dagnall 58), Perkins, Jennings, Banks, Morris, Norwood. Subs not used: Pilling, Buxton, Nelson, Harris, Mullin, Gilmour

Referee: Alan Young

Attendance: 3,970 (670 away)

Remaining Newport fixtures.

April

Tuesday 9 v Swindon Town (home)

Saturday 13 v Cambridge United (away)

Friday 19 v Bury (home)

Bank Holiday Monday 22 v Macclesfield (away)

Saturday 27 v Lincoln City (home)

Tuesday 30 v Oldham Athletic (home)

May

Saturday 4 v Morecambe (away)

League Two standings

POS.			P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1		Lincoln City	41	23	14	4	35	83
2		Mansfield Town	41	19	15	7	27	72
3		MK Dons	41	21	9	11	23	72
4		Bury	41	20	11	10	24	71
5		Tranmere Rovers	41	19	11	11	15	68
6		Forest Green Rovers	41	17	13	11	18	64
7		Exeter City	40	17	11	12	11	62
8		Carlisle United	41	18	7	16	6	61
9		Colchester United	41	17	9	15	8	60
10		Swindon Town	40	15	13	12	3	58
11		Oldham Athletic	40	15	12	13	12	57
12		Stevenage	41	16	9	16	-5	57
13		Newport County	39	16	8	15	-8	56
14		Northampton Town	41	12	17	12	-2	53
15		Crewe Alexandra	41	15	8	18	-4	53
16		Cheltenham Town	41	14	10	17	-6	52
17		Grimsby Town	41	14	7	20	-12	49
18		Port Vale	41	12	11	18	-10	47
19		Morecambe	41	12	10	19	-17	46
20		Cambridge United	41	12	9	20	-21	45
21		Crawley Town	41	12	7	22	-20	43
22		Yeovil Town	41	9	10	22	-22	37
23		Notts County	41	8	13	20	-31	37
24		Macclesfield Town	40	8	12	20	-24	36