Not for the first time on home soil, the Magpies were in a different class for most of the evening only, for goalkeeper Ryan Whitley to restrict the damage with a string of top-class saves before substitute Shaq Forde sent the away fans into mass celebration with an 89th-minute equaliser, ghosing his way through a previously under-worked Notts defence and coolly slipping his low shot beyond goalkeeper Sam Slocombe.
Even then, during six hectic minutes of added time, Whitley pulled off three notable saves to deny Notts an even later winner.
In truth, County were in second or third gear – a luxury they can ill afford come their home semi-final on Sunday.
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