Jamie Fullarton discusses Notts County performance at Crawley Town and Filip Valencic's goal

Notts County manager Jamie Fullarton has described Filip Valencic’s goal in Saturday’s 1-0 win over Crawley Town as straight off the training ground.

The Slovenian struck a wonderful volley just after the hour mark at the Checkatrade.com Stadium to seal a first Magpies away win since the opening day of the season.

"It was a fantastic strike by the young man who has responded well to the information we have been drip feeding into him over the week," said Fullarton.

"We've worked on certain aspects of how we want to attack and it's one of those where you work on it, for many weeks and fortunately it has come off.

 "That pull off onto the full-back by Jon Stead, the timing of the pass, it all came together which resulted in a fantastic finish."

Fullarton reiterated the point of getting the defence organised, an element which had been missing under previous boss Ricardo Moniz but came on in leaps and bounds against the Red Devils.

"I was always confident about getting a result especially when you see the attacking force that we have," he said.

"Scoring goals is the most difficult part of the game at whatever level you are at.

"It's important that, when we have such quality going forward, then we structure and organise in order to prevent goals going in at the other end. And if you can do that, then it gives you a chance of winning football matches.

"Roy has hardly had a save to make and that's credit to the players who were in front of him.

"When things go well, football is an easy game. It's making sure that when we are under pressure, we have resilience so it doesn't cloud or make the game complicated.

"And in the first half while we looked solid in terms of shape and we did not look under threat from a ball in behind, there were not many goalscoring opportunities.

"I said to the players at half-time that I just wanted us to be more decisive and brave in the final third.

"What I want to see is that when we have the chance to express ourselves I want us to go on and do it. 

"In the second half we had that belief and a confidence to play which was a result of our shape and foundation. We created more chances and we could have scored more goals." 

Notts climb up to 16th in League Two following their win, putting them six points away from the playoffs.

Credit to Dan Westwell for the image

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