A very important & crucial win for Notts & with other results at the top of the league going for them, Notts find themselves in third place tonight.

Some good performances today especially in the first half.

I have chosen the first eleven players plus one substitute for you to choose from . Those players are :-

Belshaw, Macari, Ness, Bedeau, Kouhyar, Palmer, Norburn, Bennetts, Grant, Iorpenda, Ndlovu, Luker,

An energetic and combative first half, followed by a slightly disjointed and far less fluent second. Through it all Ndlovu kept trying and his control was a dramatic improvement on Jatta. Norburn was gritty and determined & Ness was solid & alert plus he scored 2 great headers.

In patches, Grant, Kouhyar, Iorpenda & Bennetts were impressive. Palmer faded in the 2nd half and neither Macari or Bedeau were at their best tho’ both had three moments too. Belshaw made 2 great saves and looked comfortable.

The cameo from Luker showed how much we’ve missed him. Absolute quality on the ball, confident and he scored a screamer.

Others did well but Ness has to be MOTM. 2 terrific headers and did his defensive job, pretty much, without fault.

Yes, has to be Lucas Ness - what a day for him.

He's been doing really well since he got the job in the centre of defence.

Who else to mention? I thought Kouhyar had his best starting game for the club.

Macari, Iorpenda were good, as usual - two of our best, most consistent players.

Ndlovu was good and Luker gave us the impact sub performance we don't always get.

Ness decisively turned the game in our favour with his two goals and generally played well, although I think he switched off for Newport’s goal. Norburn and Iorpenda were their consistent selves too. Kouhyar was industrious and hard working, but didn’t have the beating of his man the same way as Bennetts did on the other side.

I thought Ndlovu was very good today held the ball up well and pressed and fought for everything. Belshaw made some important saves. For me though it has to be Lucas Ness. He has come into the side recently due to injuries to Platt and McDonald under a lot of pressure and done really well. For me he has been close to mom on a few occasions already, so today it’s a well deserved award!