Notts County striker Jatta banned for three games

Notts County striker Alassana Jatta has been handed a three-match ban by the FA for an incident which occurred in the 79th minute of Friday's last-gasp 2-1 defeat by Salford City. Jatta, who is Notts County's top scorer with 15 goals this season, will now miss Monday's League Two game against Newport County as well as matches against Cambridge United and Barnet. "The forward's behaviour around the 79th minute of the fixture wasn't seen by match officials at the time, but it was caught on video, and the FA subsequently alleged that it constituted violent conduct," an FA statement said.

"Alassana Jatta admitted the charge against him and accepted the standard punishment of a three-match suspension for violent conduct. " Notts County are fourth in the table and only outside the automatic promotion places on goal difference with five matches remaining. Head coach Martin Paterson has already criticised the Magpies' disciplinary record this season following their defeat by Oldham on 25 March in which Oliver Norburn was shown a second red card in three games and the club's fifth in total this season.

"When you are pushing for things in the league, five sending-offs generally means you are not going to quite get there because it's just too many," Paterson told BBC Radio Nottingham at the time.