Kevin Nolan: 'No team has deserved to beat Notts County at home since Portsmouth last April'

Kevin Nolan has claimed that no team has deserved to beat Notts County at home in the league since Portsmouth last April.

The South Coast side won at Meadow Lane at the tail end of last season to secure promotion and, since then, the Magpies had remained unbeaten on their own turf in League Two.

However, Exeter City have now ended County's superb unbeaten league home record, winning 2-1 on Saturday.

Speaking ahead of Tuesday night's meeting with Crawley Town, Nolan says his side will look to bounce back, and couldn't help but feel bemused about losing the record.

“We are just looking for a reaction,” Nolan told the Nottingham Post.

“When we lost to Swindon, we followed that up with a really good performance against Port Vale just a couple of days later.

“For me, it does not matter we lost at home. It was a fantastic record that we held and hats off to the lads because we had some really good teams come here this year.

“Exeter were the team who ended the run, but I don’t think they deserved to win. In fact, I don’t think anybody has deserved to since we played Portsmouth last April.

“But I felt we did more than enough to get something out of the game at the weekend, and the only thing I didn’t think we didn’t do, is work the keeper enough. That’s what we have been working on over the last 48 hours or so.”

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