Crawley Town 2-0 Notts County

Well folks, it's looking grim now. Notts have three games to save their season after succumbing to a 2-0 defeat away at Crawley, compounding a run of 11 games without a win which puts us two points from safety.

The opening goal at the Broadfield Stadium came on 15 minutes as defender Kelly Youga converted Anthony Wordsworth's corner with a spectacular overhead kick to leave Roy Carroll stranded.

Notts were right up against it just two minutes later when Wordsworth's free kick was nodded home by Darren Ward.

The visitors set about trying to reduce the deficit and went on to threaten as Blair Adams’ cross found the head of Jimmy Spencer, who forced Brian Jensen to tip the ball over the bar.

Jensen then made another fine stop minutes later, diving to save Garry Thompson’s header, before coming up trumps later on when he kept out Gary Jones's volley.

Youga had the sheer audacity to try out another overhead kick in the latter stages of the first half, but this time it sailed over the crossbar.

Notts came out with intent after the restart, but failed to provide much of a threat as Izale McLeod’s header dropped wide on 57 minutes, before the same player forced Carroll into a stop just after the hour.

With ten minutes to play, Crawley squandered a huge chance when Jordan Williams miscontrolled the ball and McLeod raced through.

The striker was denied one-on-one by Carroll and, from the rebound, substitute Dean Morgan missed an open goal.

Notts weren't able to muster up anything special in the last few minutes as Crawley sealed all three points and came out of the drop zone.

Meanwhile the Magpies' descent into League Two creeps ever closer, unless Ricardo Moniz's boys are able to rip up their current form book and conjure up another Great Escape.