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Venue: Meadow Lane, Nottinghamshire
League 2
Saturday 27th October 2007; 15:00pm

Notts County

Weir Daley 17
MacKenzie 90

2-1
(1-0)

Wrexham
Spann 70


Attendance: 4,359
Fixture 13
Ref: Andy Haines

Full Report

This was Charlie’s day and as the match was just about to kick off out came the former legend, Charlie to a standing ovation.

Notts started this game fast and with some good touches keeping the ball on the floor.

Somner was the first to try his luck, with a shot from long range but it went wide.

It looked like the new management had told the players to shoot whenever they could.

On 17 minutes a defensive error let in the speedy Weir-Daley who rounded the keeper with ease and slot the ball in the empty net to give the magpies a deserved lead.

Weston was the next one to go close when he unleashed a powerful shot which had the Wrexham keeper flying through the air to flick the ball wide for a corner.

Notts were in control for most of this half but it was only a fantastic save from Notts keeper Pilkington that kept Notts in front.

A free kick was played into the area and a Wrexham player flicked the ball towards the top of the net only for Pilkington to get a hand and push it over.

Half Time Notts County 1-0 Wrexham

 

Wrexham started the second half the better of the two teams and only for some last ditch tackling and good fortune were to keep Notts in front.

This was until the 70th minute when Substitute Spann surprised the Notts keeper with a fine low shot to get Wrexham level.

Notts pushed people forward but on the 90th minute substitute Sam was fouled by the Wrexham goal scorer Spann when clean through.

The ref showed the Wrexham player the red card.

The question was now could Notts get anything from the free kick in injury time? Well the answer was yes.

Neil MacKenzie was the man to step up and bend the ball round the wall and into the net to send the Notts fans into jubilation.

Full Time Notts County 2-1 Wrexham

 

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Player Ratings

Pilkington: Made one fantastic save in the first half. No chance with the goal. Flap on the odd time when coming through players. 7
Canoville: Got forward very well and was comfortable in defence. 7
Hunt: Looked a bit shaky at times.6
Tann: Looked better then of late and won a lot of headers. 7
Mayo: Solid at the back and distributed better than usual. Got forward well. 7
Somner: Great game won a lot of tackles and had a few shots on goal. My man of the match.8.5
Butcher: Blew hot and cold really but did try very hard both in attack and in covering defensively. 7
MacKenzie: Had a good solid game in the middle, Great Free- kick to win the game at the end.8
Weston: Looks better each game back, gave the ball away a bit. tired had to be subbed.7
Weir-Daley: Worked hard, Scared the defence when running at them,scored a goal.7
Dudfield: I thought he had a quite game.5

Subs:
Parkinson (for Weston): Did not do much.5
Sam (for Weir-Daley): Won Free-Kick at the end. Looked good.7

Fans Comments Below

Paul from Cinderhill says "Great win now lets carry it on to the next match”