Match Reaction: Notts County 2-0 Morecambe, Saturday 9 September 2017

Notts County have climbed to third in League Two and stretched their unbeaten run to six games in all competitions following a 2-0 win over Morecambe.

Dan Jones opened the scoring for the Magpies at Meadow Lane with a 27th-minute free kick which was curled expertly round the Shrimps wall and beyond goalkeeper Barry Roche.

Morecambe launched a fightback but their efforts were to no avail as Notts struck late on through substitute Jonathan Forte as he broke through and rifled home via the inside of the post.

Here is some of the reaction from some of the Notts players, the manager, and the Black and White Army.

Kevin Nolan

"It was a lot better than last week's performance. I thought we dominated throughout.

"The lads were magnificent. They followed up a hard-fought win last week with another top performance and clean sheet today.

"As a defensive unit I feel we had to get better from last year. We were leaking goals from here, there and everywhere and now we look like a really good, solid unit.

"It was a great all-round performance and I'm absolutely delighed. We're on a decent run now but the games come thick and fast.

"We've got another tough one on Tuesday night so we're looking forward to that."

Ryan Yates

Jorge Grant

Adam Collin

The fans (from PON's Morecambe match discussion)

Chris

"I thought Notts played quite well, in spells we really dominated the play but without a few things going our way - this really would have been a draw.

"Morecambe was very poor, I thought they would be more aggressive and physical but they only changed once the free-kick had gone in. To be fair, they allowed us to have more time on the ball by using three men to mark players like Jorge Grant. I agree that our football wasn't pretty at times, yet it's very good progress on the back of a very poor season last year and the promising signs are that it's improving.

"The injury to Shola Ameobi was a massive blow, though Jonathan Forte has proven that he can come in and score.

"The team spirit shined during the period whereby Morecambe threatened, though I must say Duffy looks the weak link in defence and his rushing of the play was very frustrating."

Liampie

"It was sad to see people leaving around the 75th minute mark moaning about how poor the game was, i thought notts played quite well but lacked fire power and we really did miss shola in the squad half. Second goal people became more cheerful. Good performance and win for me."

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