Notts County’s Martin Paterson: I want aggressive attacking style

Martin Paterson wants to create an attacking and aggressive style of play at Notts County after the Magpies cruised to a 3-1 home win against Oldham at Meadow Lane.

Paterson’s side took the lead on seven minutes through an own goal from Donervon Daniels before Tyrese Hall’s precise finish on 29 minutes made it two.

Striker Alassana Jatta fired through the legs of Mathew Hudson four minutes after half time to extend County’s lead before Michael Mellon scored a consolation for Oldham on 54 minutes with a lob over Kelle Roos.

Despite inflicting a first away defeat of the season on Oldham, the Magpies wasted a number of chances and Paterson felt his side could have doubled their goal tally.

Paterson said: “I’m delighted to get a home win going into an international break where we can continue working on things.

“We attack and we’re aggressive, that’s the culture and the mentality we’re trying to build when teams come to Meadow Lane.

“It’s something (taking chances) we can continue to keep working on, rather than scoring three and thinking we’ve cracked it and we’re brilliant. With due respect, we could have doubled that tally.

“That’s great for me as a head coach because you can work on it in training and get better and that’s what I want. I want a learning environment, we want to push the stick every day and get better.

“There’s lots of things we can keep working on – some of our weaknesses I will hammer home and some of our strengths we’ll keep working on, because that’s what you do when you’re trying to improve a group of lads that want to learn.”

Oldham’s four-game unbeaten run is now over, and Latics boss Micky Mellon felt his side’s performance let the travelling supporters down.

Mellon said: “We’ve done well up to this stage and we just had too many that didn’t play well enough.

“We didn’t play well enough with the ball or without the ball, we started really poorly and gave away some cheap goals. We just didn’t really give a good account of ourselves as individuals and as a group.

“You can’t take anything away from the opposition and I thought they punished us and they looked more comfortable in this kind of game with this kind of environment than what we did, and that’s disappointing and a learning curve for us.

“But I was expecting more of us. I am disappointed and feel that we have let the supporters sort of down by not being a better version of ourselves.

“There were too many odd errors … poor with the ball and poor decision-making, and then some of the defending is unlike us.”