| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | G.Avg | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2682 | 891 | 629 | 1162 | 3716 | 4571 | -855 | 0.81 | 33.22% |
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | G.Avg | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 285 | 98 | 83 | 104 | 370 | 390 | -20 | 0.95 | 34.39% |
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Newport 2 Jones 3′: Willmott 24′: . Team badge of Morecambe Morecambe 3 Naylor 12′: (og), 57′: (og) Amond 71′: (pen) . FT 90 +8 HT 2-1 . Tom Naylor scored two own goals and conceded a penalty as Morecambe beat Newport to claim a fourth win in a row. Debutant Billy Jones fired in from close range before Naylor nodded into his own net. Robbie Willmott's fierce strike gave County a 2-1 half-time lead before Naylor headed in at the wrong end for the second time to level the score. And when he fouled Kevin Ellison in the 70th minute, Padraig Amond stepped up to claim the points from from the spot. The win lifts Morecambe to sixth in the table, while Newport drop to 12th after suffering their first home defeat of the season. VIEW FROM THE DRESSING ROOM Newport County manager Justin Edinburgh told BBC Radio Wales: It's very disappointing. We've been punished for indecisive play in our final third. We created lots of chances today, but if you give goals away like that it's going to be hard to win games. You don't deserve anything out of a game if you give those types of goal away. It's been one of those days. He's [Tom Naylor] been excellent for us since he's arrived. Everything that could go wrong went wrong today. Good players bounce back and get stronger from that and I have no doubt that's what he'll do because he's a very good player. Lineup, Bookings (4) & Substitutions (5) Newport County 01 Pidgeley 03 Hughes 19 Naylor Booked (Yakubu - 74' ) 22 Worley Booked 02 Pipe 07 Chapman 12 Willmott 16 Jones (Jolley - 79' ) 17 Flynn 11 Zebroski (Crow - 68' ) 14 Washington Substitutes 25 Stephens 05 James 06 Yakubu 18 Jackson 15 Burge 23 Jolley 09 Crow Morecambe 01 Roche 05 Hughes 06 Diagne 08 Wright 22 Parrish 04 Kenyon Booked 10 Williams Booked (McGee - 85' ) 16 Drummond 09 Sampson (Mwasile - 90' ) 11 Ellison 27 Amond Substitutes 25 Arestidou 23 Doyle 19 McGee 20 Mwasile 21 McGowan Ref: Sarginson Att: 3,165
I chose this game partly to avoid the horrors of a Burnley-Blackburn game and was rewarded with a sunny afternoon anda good gams, the highlight of which was a run by the excellent Kevin Ellison. A Morecambe move started at right back, played then into the centre, then down the left. Players of both sides followed, except Ellison, who instead ran out to the right. When the cross came over he did not score direct, but the keeper could not hold it and another player tapped in.