John Sheridan: 'Notts County won Exeter game in first half'

John Sheridan has hailed his side's 2-0 win at Exeter City on Tuesday, putting emphasis on the impressive first-half display which he says "won the game".

The Magpies raced into a two-goal lead, courtesy of Jon Stead's brace which took him to nine goals for the season.

In the second half the Grecians rallied round but Adam Collin pulled off a string of saves to finish the game with a clean sheet.

"It was just good to win a football match," Sheridan told reporters. "In the first half you could see we were a strong outfit.

"We won the game in the first half and when we went 2-0 up I expected us to go on and win the game.

"I wasn't pleased with the way we played in the second half, but I don't want to go into that too much.

"Exeter gave us problems, but there were blocks and Adam Collin did brilliant. There was a real desire to get our first clean sheet.

"But the most important thing was the three points."

The result lifted Notts up to fifth in the table as they secured a third successive win ahead of the visit of Morecambe on Saturday.

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