Newport County 2-0 Stevenage

Aaron O'Connor heads Newport County in front against Stevenage

Ten-man Newport County stretched their unbeaten run in League Two to nine matches with a win over Stevenage.

Aaron O'Connor headed County in front midway through the first half after Lee Minshull flicked on from Ryan Jackson's throw-in.

Darren Jones finished from close range to double their lead, before O'Connor was sent off in injury time for a late challenge on Ron Henry.

Newport's third successive win sees them climb to sixth place in the table.

Newport County manager Justin Edinburgh told BBC Radio Wales:

"Obviously the gloss has been taken off the result in terms of the sending off.

"It was a thoroughly good victory in a dogged game in which there wasn't a lot of football played.

"But when you come up against a strong Stevenage side you know what you have to do well at and we certainly did that."

Stevenage manager Graham Westley told BBC Three Counties Radio:

"Away from home, we've struggled to get our formula right, but we started the game strongly and at the end of 90 minutes I can't say we were physically overrun.

"As an away performance it was much more solid and structured than we've been, but detail is the difference between winning and losing. It's nice to be looking at points of detail, because that means you know you're not a million miles away from getting it right.

"I thought our back three, in open play, defended the threat well and the problems that came our way were from the set-plays that we'd organised ourselves around, but ones where one or two people forgetting the details cost us."