Forest Green Rovers 0, Newport County 4
Michael Flynn hailed his Newport County team after their League Two win, saying: “This was arguably the best performance since I took charge.”
Padre Amond took his goals tally for the season to six by scoring twice during the first half, while Scot Bennett and substitute Shawn McCoulsky added their goals during the last 12 minutes.
He has netted five times for Newport and he is putting pressure on Frank Nouble, who has now gone nine games without a goal.
“What an away performance that was!” said Flynn. “The boys were outstanding.
“It was a little bit of a slow start in the first 10 minutes, but after that it was all one-way traffic and the boys were brilliant.
“I’ve been asking them to take their chances and they’ve done that. They were ruthless.
“The boys were outstanding and I don’t think we looked like conceding.
“We have to keep doing what we set out to do, keep doing the horrible side of the game, keep playing our football, – we’re playing a good brand of football now. We’ll see where it takes us.”
Newport are sixth in League Two and now have successive home fixtures, against Colchester United on Tuesday and Mansfield Town next Saturday.
Josh Labadie played in an attacking role behind the front two of Nouble and Amond, while Matt Dolan and Ben Tozer patrolled just in front of the defence.
Scot Bennett was preferred to Mark O’Brien and played alongside Ben White and Mickey Demetriou in the centre, while Dan Butler and David Pipe did well in the wing-back roles.
County were well organised at the back and gave goalkeeper Joe Day the chance to keep a clean sheet.
Amond his first from Bennett’s flick-on and then tapped in after Nouble’s shot was well saved by goalkeeper Sam Russell.
Bennett netted a third goal following Tozer’s long throw before McClousky headed in from Butler’s cross.
The win lifted Newport into the play-off positions, while Rovers dropped into the bottom two.
County: Day, Demetriou, Bennett, White, Butler, Tozer, Dolan, Pipe (O’Brien 77), Labadie (Owen-Evans 88), Nouble (McCoulsky 81), Amond. Subs not used: Barnum-Bobb, Rigg, Reynolds, Quigley
Referee: Carl Boyeson
Attendance: 2,864 (815 Newport).
