Kevin Nolan calls for cool heads in "hostile environment" at Mansfield

Kevin Nolan has urged his Notts County players to stick to their guns and not let the hostile environment get to them in tomorrow's League Two derby with Mansfield Town.

The Magpies have had the perfect September, navigating through their six games so far with a 100% record, scoring 12 goals and conceding just one en route to the top of the table.

To finish the month off, Notts will face a Stags side were earmarked as promotion favourites at the start of the season due to heavy squad investment but were beaten 3-0 at Cheltenham Town in midweek.

"We're going to a really good Mansfield side who have had a tough result in midweek," Nolan told the official Notts website. "They will want to respond and there's no better way to do that than in a derby.

"I'm concentrating on us, hoping we can go there with the confidence, attitude and application we've been playing with recently, but temperament is key more than anything.

"For me it was always about concentrating on what was happening on the field. If you get carried away with the occasion, you start to make mistakes.

"You need a cool head in a hostile environment, which I expect it to be on Saturday. Mansfield will try to make it as difficult as possible for us.

"After the two wins this week we want to finish it off with another positive result.

"The manner in which we won the games against Lincoln and Exeter was  fantastic so we will stick to what we do, try to counter Mansfield's strengths and hit them where we think their weaknesses are.

"We have a fantastic opportunity to get another three points."

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