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Penalty to Notts County!
90+5 min: Bostock’s chip goes in, and Austin tries to keep it in. Plenty of swinging legs and arms. An appeal for a penalty…..? Has he given it? He has! A handball from O’Connell, and very well spotted. Wow!
90+3 min: Notts County really need to GET IT LAUNCHED now. Bostock is still amongst it. They seem unwilling to pump the ball in there. Patient play, admirable in a way. And a free-kick won.
90+1 min: Wrexham fans smiling. It’s even sunny in Wrexham now, though the grins descend when Dalby almost gets in on goal, only to be tackled. Still, they can take time over the corner.
90 min: Into the last minute, Wrexham sat deep, Austin leading the charge, with some hurried defending holding them back. Six minutes to be added on.
88 min: Wrexham almost finish it off, only for Dalby the sub have his shot saved by a sliding Slocombe. Chances at both ends, almost next goal wins.
86 min: The TV commentary has just mentioned Blue Peter legend Tim Vincent. Yes, it’s that type of day.
84 min: All credit to Notts County, who aren’t giving this up, not at all. The breaks in play are taking longer when Wrexham have the ball. Hurry-up offense for County.
82 min: Not much calm to be found, and who wants that in a game of such blood and thunder? It’s lived up to its billing.
80 min: Yeah, there’s some premium content to be had here. Anyone checked Disney’s share price?
Goal! Wrexham 3-2 Notts County (Lee, 78)
Oh no, Notts. O’Connell’s long ball and then Bajrami, for some reason, backheels the ball into the path of Mullin, who sets up Lee to score. A disaster. The defending for the last couple of goals has been way down the pyramid, let alone fifth division.
77 min: A couple of subs made by Notts County. They now have the whip hand.
Goal! Wrexham 2-2 Notts County (Cameron, 75)
Foster has to make a save from Austin…corner….it’s looped to the back post and Cameron nods down and in. A captain’s goal. Now, where we the defenders?
74 min: Notts go close. Cameron scampers on and crosses, and Foster’s hand deflects it away from the awaiting Langstaff.
72 min: The Racecourse Roar is loud now. “We’re gonna win the league,” sing the home fans. Here’s that Mullin goal.
70 min: Yes, Reynolds and McElhenney, Ryan and Rob, really did enjoy that. They also applaud as Ollie Palmer goes off for Darby.
Goal! Wrexham 2-1 Notts County (Mendy, 69)
Long ball, chased down the channels by Mullin, and his cross goes across the box and Mendy, from a tight angle wallops in.
68 min: Whose need is greater:? Probably Notts, who have played a game more. Not that either team looks willing to settle for anything yet.
66 min: Notts County’s Palmer booked for a foul on Cannon, who’s gone down.
65 min: This game is going a bit silly now, as we hoped and expected. Ollie Palmer slides the ball through and causes mayhem in the County box, Chicksen having to come to the rescue.
63 min: Langstaff tries to escape on the counter, and gets hauled back by Mendy. That was very cynical.
62 min: Another Tozer bomb, this time it goes back the other end and Ben Foster almost gives the ball straight to Langstaff.
60 min: Slocombe plays sweeper keeper to clear. That only invites Ben Tozer to launch the ball in. From the second ball, perhaps the third, and O’Connell, falling back, smashes against the bar.
58 min: The ball squirts out to Mullin, after another Bajrami slip but this time he can only pump it into Slocombe’s midriff.
57 min: Let’s just say Stuart Attwell might struggle at this level. Or perhaps thrive. Plenty of foul play being allowed to stand.
56 min: County stepping it right up. Mendy has to dash back and clear the ball.
54 min: Rodrigues is back on, his voice possibly more whistly than before. His tooth is still missing.
52 min: Better still, the temperatures are rising, with Rodrigues, the Notts County player, having lost a tooth. There’s a search taking place. He lost it on the edge of his own box. Yes, welcome to the National League.
50 min: Wrexham find the goal they looked unlike scoring in the first half. They were full of danger from the start here.
Goal! Wrexham 1-1 Notts County (Mullin, 49)
Long ball over the top. Jones’ pass, was Bajrami fouled? Mullin slots in, just as he is expected to. His 44th goal of the season. Game on!
48 min: Slocombe again in the thick of it. Been a lot of rain at half-time, as there has elsewhere in the north west.
46 min: Back away we go. No changes at half-time. And some early aggro, as Phil Parkinson is booked for an early tussle between Mullin and Slocombe.
Bozzie and Fozzie: Lovely goal from John Bostock. Ben Foster will be disappointed with that.
Half-time: Wrexham 0-1 Notts County
Can’t imagine that half will survive the cutting-room floor when it comes to the edit. Maybe Ryan and Rob emoting aplenty. Neither teams’ star strikers had seen much of the ball. The main battle had been in the air. It’s almost as if this was fifth-division fare. Then it was John Bostock, who deserves his own miniseries, who smashes in that free-kick. A goal for all of England, and Notts County might soon be back being the oldest league club in football.
Goal! Wrexham 0-1 Notts County (Bostock, 45+2)
A free-kick from distance, left-footed, and walloped beyond Foster, over a wall that didn’t jump. What a goal. What a twist!
45+1 min: Three minutes added on.
44 min: Notts County have territory but fail to do much with it. This is yet to be a good game of football.
43 min: Mullin piles into Rodrigues, and is booked after a long chat from the referee. It was some clatter of a tackle.
41 min: Star billing for Mullin but his free-kick ends up among the diggers behind the goal. His bosses, in baseball caps and letterman’s jackets, look annoyed by that miss.
40 min: Ollie Palmer smashed into by Rawlinson who will be yellow-carded. Wrexhham had a break on. Mullin will take the free-kick.
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