Notts County won their second friendly match of the summer on Saturday, this time against Alfreton Town as the Magpies work crucially towards the season start of their National League campaign next month.<\/p>\n
County won 2-1 at the Impact Arena with Wes Thomas and Kyle Wootton scoring as the Black and Whites Manager Neal Ardley said after the match \u201cgetting minutes in the legs was certainly the case at the moment especially for those lads who have had four or five months off and didn\u2019t feature in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst half we got lots wrong and played in their hands a bit, the second half team and performance learned from the first half which was good because you don\u2019t want to turn up and everything goes swimmingly and don\u2019t learn anything. We learned things about having the right to play, showing teams we\u2019ve got pace and power in attack and we can stretch them rather than playing football all the time through the third. We\u2019ve got to mix the game up at times and did that better in the second half\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ardley would have been pleased that both his strikers scored as Wes Thomas poached home in the first half before Wootton slotted home a penalty in between an Alfreton leveller with the step five team running out winners against opposition from the league below underneath the sunny Derbyshire skies.<\/p>\n