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Notts County 1-2 Yeovil Town


Joe Jones

Another matchday, another poor performance, another 90 minutes in which no Notts forward has found the net, another defeat. Notts County lost 2-1 at home to a Yeovil side gunning for the play-offs, courtesy of a first half rebound goal from the highly rated Paddy Madden and a free-kick by Matthew Dolan. Chris Kiwomya, looking to build on the strong finish his side had against Brentford at Griffin Park three days earlier, chose to play 4-4-2, dropping Jeff Hughes and picking Enoch Showunmi alongside Yoann Arquin.

Within 10 seconds, Angelo Balanta attempted a long range drive, but Fabian Speiss, in for the ill Bartosz Bialkowski, caught easily.

Notts' first shot came from Showunmi, whose volley was well over.

A lively first ten minutes saw several chances traded by both sides, Yoann Arquin threatening with a header on ten minutes.

After this lively period, a bit of a stalemate ensued with both sides struggling to control the ball or even string more than two passes together, which made for tedious viewing, it has to be said.

On 42 minutes, the Notts crowd enjoyed their team's first serious attempt on goal, as Showunmi's header looked to be in, but Glovers keeper Marek Stech pulled off a sensational save to parry the ball to his right and away from danger.

In first half injury time, just as the fans began leaving the stands in a vain attempt to miss the queue for the bar (there's always at least a dozen people in that queue well before the half-time whistle goes!), Dolan's shot at goal was saved superbly by young Speiss, but unfortunately the talented Madden was at hand to fire the rebound into the net.

The second half saw Notts try and apply pressure on Yeovil in a bid to come back on level terms, and were rewarded on 49 when Alan Judge was fouled in the area by Dan Burn and was given a penalty. The pint-sized Irishman stepped up and converted from 12 yards to make it 1-1.

Now, disappointment in football comes in many forms. Conceding again shortly after equalising is on that list, and Notts fans, veterans of practically every type of footballing disappointment on the big long list, got to experience that when Yeovil were gifted a free-kick just outside the Notts box, and, with Speiss distracted by two Glovers players haranguing him on the goal-line, the Somerset team scored from their free-kick. 2-1 down just three minutes after equalising.

The rest of the game would see some of the flaws in Notts' gameplan made evidently clear. Just before the hour, an assault on the Yeovil goal saw the ball trickle to substitute Jeff Hughes, who, from two yards out, saw his shot sensationally miss the goal.

On 65, the ineffective Arquin was replaced by young Academy player Tyrell Waite, who made a difference straight away with his dynamic, confident runs.

Judge, who tormented the Yeovil defence all afternoon long, was unjustly deemed to have dived in the opposition box and given a yellow card on 72 minutes.

The rest of the game would see Notts struggle to break down the Yeovil defence and get any more meaningful shots on target to trouble the keeper, none more so that late on when Showunmi was clear in front of the Yeovil goal and who delivered a header which was saved so easily by Stech, it looked more like he was on the same side as him and was passing the ball back to the keeper.

As the whistle finally went, the only cheers in the stadium belonged to the travelling Yeovil fans, who scraped back into the play-offs, while for the Notts faithful, a season which promised so much in the early stages has delivered so little, and frankly, it cannot be over soon enough.



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Chris

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The game for me had it's highlights, especially in the second half. sadly not all for the right reasons but when we passed, some decent chances landed our way but some final finishing would be nice. Young Waite impressed me, he seemed very happy to run and move around, not afraid to take anyone on.

Good write up buddy, Thank you for your hard work mate.

jurgenpie

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Good write up, pitch was the poorest I've seen all season.

super_ram

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Good report again,thanks Joe.The pitch coming in for a bit of criticism.So now the season just winds down.


liampie

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it did not look prett, shocking missing but enoch is trying. good report



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