Kevin Nolan: 'Notts County have lots of work to do'

Kevin Nolan has admitted that Notts County have "lots and lots of work to do on the training pitch", but is confident that they will get up to scratch come the start of the 2017-18 League Two season.

The Magpies won their opening two games, against non-league opposition, but have fallen to defeats against Nottingham Forest and Wigan Athletic.

Against the Latics, Notts took the lead in emphatic fashion through Lewis Alessandra but went on to lose through a Richard Duffy own goal and a Callum Lang close-range effort.

“I was reasonably happy but I thought the manner of the goals we gave away was very disappointing,” Nolan told the Nottingham Post.

“The lads know that, but throughout the 90 minutes we’ve matched them. We created a lot of chances and I am now really looking forward to working more with them and hopefully getting better game by game.

“I was just disappointed to lose the game in the manner we did although I am not really worried about wins and losses in pre-season.

“There is lots and lots of work to do on the training pitch and the players know that. When you talk about it they are all nodding their heads and taking it in and they will get better because of it.

“We’ve just got to keep reminding them of what we need to do to be successful. But there were lots of positives to take from playing a good Wigan side who probably got more than what they deserved from the game.

“But it’s a pre-season game, it’s about those minutes in the legs and they all look really well and fit so that was a real positive point.”

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