Notts County 1 - 0 Gillingham

Well, the good times just keep rolling. Another game, another win, another clean sheet, another set of feel-good stories as the Magpies keep marching on.

Shaun Harrad, in his second spell at Notts County, scored an emotional first ever goal at Meadow Lane, while the impervious Roy Carroll pulled off a sublime save from a penalty kick to seal a 1-0 win at home to Gillingham.

Doug Loft, captain for the visitors, caused trouble from the off when he blasted a shot from the edge of the area, but the effort flew over the bar, while in the seventh minute, Stephen McLaughlin forced a stop from Gills keeper Stephen Bywater following a stern strike.

Both sides exchanges parrying shots in an open-ended contest, but the breakthrough came ten minutes from the break as McLoughlin's cross was headed on by Jake Cassidy before falling to the waiting Harrad, who nodded the ball in from close range to send the home crowd into a frenzy.

Loft, however, almost equalised on the stroke of half-time with a stinging 25-yard strike that cannoned off the crossbar.

Peter Taylor’s side were invigorated after the break and came forward time and time again, with Cody McDonald poking the ball underneath Carroll in the 54th minute but being denied by a spectacular goal-line clearance by Louis Laing.

Garry Thompson came close to scoring at the back post midway through the first half, but Gillingham pushed forward at every opportunity, and had the perfect chance to equalise when Bradley Dack was brought down by Louis Laing with ten minutes left.

Luke Norris struck a seemingly perfect low and hard ball into the bottom left corner, but Carroll guessed the right way and pulled off a tremendous save, getting his body behind the shot and keeping hold of it.

There were seven minutes of injury time for Notts to see out and Gillingham threw everything forward in a bid to claim an equaliser, but couldn't find a way through a resolute Magpies defence which kept their second clean sheet in a week.