GARY Bowyer was delighted to avoid a potential "banana skin" as City maintained their winning form at bottom club Morecambe.

Hope Akpan and Aramide Oteh scored in the second half to fire the Bantams up to third with a 2-1 win.

Bowyer said: "People had already written the headlines on Thursday and Friday about a banana skin for us.

“I knew myself what a good set-up it is at Morecambe and how hard they work. We knew it was going to be a tough game.

“The first half was a very cagey affair and I thought we should have been leading 1-0 through Clayton Donaldson.

“I don’t think we played with enough intensity but we certainly did at the start of the second.

“We had to make better decisions and certainly did that."

Akpan struck for the second time in successive games soon after the break before on-loan QPR striker Oteh made sure with his first goal for the club. Morecambe pulled one back in stoppage time.

“Dylan Connolly did brilliantly for the first goal," added the City boss. "I thought it might have been a penalty but he took that decision out the referee’s hands and set up Hope again.

“I fancied Hope for a goal again and that was the case. He’s in a rich vein of form now with two in two and long may that continue.

“We then went 2-0 up and I felt all week with Remi that the way he had applied himself, he looked the sharpest he had been. The boy can score goals and took it ever so well.

“Then, as Jim’s teams do, they keep fighting and we were certainly concerned at the death.”