Wrexham 3-2 Notts County: Lee goal and late Foster penalty save sees Dragons back on top

Paul Mullin's extremity began Wrexham's fightback earlier the striker acceptable up their 2 different goals

Elliot Lee's extremity and a sublime Ben Foster punishment prevention saw Wrexham wrestle backmost archetypal spot from Notts County successful the National League.

Elliot Lee converted Mullin's transverse to reconstruct Wrexham's advantage, but it needed Foster to prevention Cedwyn Scott's last-gasp punishment to rescue the win.

Notts County manager Luke Williams had said successful precocious March that the National League rubric contention was "over".

But Wrexham suffered a atrocious Good Friday 3 days agone arsenic Halifax Town bushed their visitors 3-1, allowing Notts County to instrumentality to the apical of the array connected extremity quality courtesy of their 3-0 triumph implicit Wealdstone.

With conscionable 1 automatic promotion spot connected connection backmost to the Football League, the stakes could not person been higher for 2 sides who person acceptable the part alight this season.

Both had already amassed 100 points, some had scored 106 goals, and some boasted the division's apical scorers successful Macaulay Langstaff connected 41 for Notts County - a National League and nine grounds implicit a play - and Mullin with 34 for Wrexham.

The Dragons, famously backed by Hollywood brace Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, astatine slightest had location vantage for this brushwood and a crippled successful manus implicit the Magpies.

Lose and the rubric contention would inactive beryllium acold from over, triumph and the likelihood would plaything importantly backmost successful the northbound Wales side's favour.

Wrexham had an aboriginal punishment outcry waved distant by referee Scott Tallis for what appeared to beryllium a shove connected Mullin, but the archetypal fractional astatine the Racecourse Ground was mostly a cagey affair.

Mullin had a half-chance arsenic helium broke aft a through-ball but Sam Slocombe was retired quickly, forcing the Wrexham striker to poke the shot wide arsenic helium stumbled past the County goalkeeper for a half-hearted punishment appeal.

But the stalemate was breached connected the changeable of half-time erstwhile Ruben Rodrigues was brought down from down by James Jones 10 yards abbreviated of the Wrexham area.

The free-kick was nicely cardinal and Bostock stepped up to changeable an fantabulous left-foot changeable implicit the partition and into the apical close corner, beyond Foster's despairing dive.

John Bostock's free-kick moments earlier half-time had fixed Notts County the lead

It took little than 5 minutes aft the restart for Wrexham to respond, with Mullin again taking centre stage.

The striker muscled Geraldo Bajrami retired of his path, provoking County protests, and connected with Jones' transverse to expanse the shot debased into the net.

The amended chances fell to the location broadside with Mullin's effort good gathered by Slocombe earlier Eoghan O'Connell sent a changeable crashing disconnected the visitors' crossbar.

Mullin's sharpness proved the quality arsenic Wrexham took the lead, the striker timing his tally brilliantly successful the close transmission to instrumentality a debased free-kick successful his stride and nonstop the shot crossed the County area.

Mendy had seen the opening and arrived astatine gait connected the acold station to nonstop a left-foot changeable backmost crossed extremity to bushed Slocombe.

In what was accelerated becoming a classical advert for National League football, County responded to regain parity.

Foster had produced a good prevention to contradict Sam Austin, but the Wrexham defence went to slumber from the resulting corner, allowing Magpies skipper Cameron - who had earlier sent a changeable conscionable wide - to caput in.

It took conscionable different 3 minutes for the pendulum to plaything backmost Wrexham's way, arsenic Mullin worked abstraction successful the container to laic the shot disconnected to Lee who gleefully reclaimed the pb from abbreviated range.

Sam Dalby should person enactment the crippled to furniture with 3 minutes near arsenic Mullin again picked retired a team-mate successful premier position, but Slocombe dispersed himself to forestall what seemed a definite 4th Wrexham goal.

In a frantic finale County were awarded a punishment successful the sixth infinitesimal of clip added connected for a handball by O'Connell.

But Foster work Scott's spot kick, throwing himself to his close to marque an exceptional prevention circular the station and marque the Dragons favourites to instrumentality to the Football League for the archetypal clip since their relegation successful 2008.