Harrogate Town boss Simon Weaver sings from a familiar hymnsheet as tepid Sulphurites lack cutting edge

With relegation rivals Barrow, Crawley and Newport all in action at 3pm, Harrogate passed up a major opportunity to pile the pressure on the trio and do themselves a huge favour in the process by moving out of the relegation places with a precious victory.

But a lack of quality in the final third - a big factor in their toils this season - proved their undoing once more, with Alassana Jatta showing what the Sulphurites are missing with a double at Wetherby Road to move Notts into the top three.

Town have won just three home league matches this term and only one since September 20.

Their goals return is just as alarming, if not more so. Weaver's side have netted just 12 times in 20 home matches thus far and the clock is ticking regarding retaining their EFL status.

Weaver said: "I thought, for the large part, we played some good football, but it needs to be with that purpose of scoring goals.

"We didn't show sufficient cutting edge in the final third to get a result in it.

"I thought it was a frenetic start, the opening five or ten minutes.

"It was difficult conditions for both teams, but when the wind was going for us in the first half, I'd have like to have created a few more opportunities and tested the keeper more frequently, and built up that intensity on their goal.

"There were still moments, whether it was a slip or a penalty shot on Ellis (Taylor), that I did actually feel that he was just going to turn and strike at home. I thought overall it was a good reaction from going a goal down.

"Obviously you want perfection and not to concede any goals, and the second goal took the game away from us.

"Perhaps the decision with the ball wasn't the right decision, and at the right time, in these conditions, we got caught.

"But their lad (Jatta), fair play to him, showed us pedigree and banged it home, and that's what they've got. They've got good finishers in the area.”