Newport County 0-2 Bury

Craig Jones of Bury collides with Miles Storey of Newport County

Bury kept up the pressure on the League Two automatic promotion places as they hurt Newport County's play-off hopes.

The visitors were in control after Ryan Lowe opened the scoring, flicking Chris Hussey's drive into the net.

Daniel Nardiello made sure of the three points in time added on as he beat the off-side trap to slide the ball home.

Bury are four points behind Wycombe in third but have a game in hand, while Newport drop out of the play-off zone and trail Plymouth by two points.

Newport County manager Jimmy Dack told BBC Radio Wales:

"We've come up against a good side in Bury, they've come here - they've won eight out of 10 and are in good form.

"But we had a few chances early in the game and didn't take them and it's the same old story: we go a goal down and we're chasing the game.

"I keep saying [to the players] they've got to go and get that first goal for us to settle down, we're good enough to see games out."

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Flitcroft on Newport v Bury

Bury manager David Flitcroft told BBC Radio Manchester:

"It was a top-draw performance. The amount of times we ripped Newport open was something we'd looked at.

"We've done a lot of work on that during the week, spent a lot of time seeing where we felt we could hurt them and we did hurt them.

"We had to move the ball quickly and well, some of the movement first half, particularly down the right, was excellent."

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Line-ups

Newport

• 30Day
• 26Poole
• 5Jones
• 13Sandell
• 2Jackson
• 33Byrne
• 8MinshullSubstituted forFeelyat 53'minutes
• 7Chapman
• 18KlukowskiSubstituted forStoreyat 45'minutes
• 11ZebroskiSubstituted forJeffersat 70'minutes
• 10O'Connor

Substitutes

• 3Feely
• 4Porter
• 14Jeffers
• 20Storey
• 24Parker
• 25Stephens
• 27Tutonda

Bury

• 21Pope
• 2Jones
• 5El-Abd
• 27Cameron
• 11Hussey
• 19SoaresSubstituted forRoseat 81'minutesBooked at 86mins
• 4Tutte
• 6Etuhu
• 10Mayor
• 18EavesSubstituted forSedgwickat 70'minutes
• 15LoweSubstituted forNardielloat 61'minutes

Substitutes

• 7Hope
• 8Adams
• 9Rose
• 12Sedgwick
• 16O'Brien
• 17Nardiello
• 26Lainton

Referee:

Oliver Langford

Attendance:

3,123

Match Stats

Home TeamNewportAway TeamBury

Possession

Home42%

Away58%

Shots

Home5

Away13

Shots on Target

Home1

Away6

Corners

Home6

Away8

Fouls

Home6

Away3

Live Text

Posted at

Match ends, Newport County 0, Bury 2.

Full Time

Posted at 90'+5'

Second Half ends, Newport County 0, Bury 2.

Posted at 90'+2'

Attempt missed. Danny Rose (Bury) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is close, but misses the top left corner.

Posted at 90'

Danny Mayor (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

Posted at 90'

Foul by Kevin Feely (Newport County).

Goal!

Posted at 88'

Goal! Newport County 0, Bury 2. Daniel Nardiello (Bury) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andrew Tutte.

Posted at 87'

Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Kelvin Etuhu.

Posted at 87'

Attempt blocked. Adam Chapman (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.

Booking

Posted at 86'

Danny Rose (Bury) is shown the yellow card.

Posted at 86'

Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Craig Jones.

Substitution

Posted at 81'

Substitution, Bury. Danny Rose replaces Tom Soares.

Substitution

Posted at 70'

Substitution, Bury. Chris Sedgwick replaces Tom Eaves.

Substitution

Posted at 70'

Substitution, Newport County. Shaun Jeffers replaces Chris Zebroski.

Posted at 68'

Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Adam El-Abd.

Substitution

Posted at 61'

Substitution, Bury. Daniel Nardiello replaces Ryan Lowe.

Posted at 57'

Foul by Ryan Jackson (Newport County).

Posted at 57'

Danny Mayor (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

Substitution

Posted at 53'

Substitution, Newport County. Kevin Feely replaces Lee Minshull.

Posted at 53'

Attempt missed. Andrew Tutte (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.

Posted at 51'

Tom Soares (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

Posted at 51'

Foul by Lee Minshull (Newport County).

Posted at 51'

Corner, Bury. Conceded by Chris Zebroski.

Posted at 50'

Corner, Bury. Conceded by Joe Day.

Posted at 50'

Attempt saved. Andrew Tutte (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.

Posted at 50'

Corner, Bury. Conceded by Lee Minshull.

Posted at 49'

Corner, Bury. Conceded by Joe Day.

Posted at 49'

Attempt saved. Andrew Tutte (Bury) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.

Posted at 47'

Attempt missed. Ryan Lowe (Bury) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.

Second Half

Posted at

Second Half begins Newport County 0, Bury 1.

Substitution

Posted at 45'

Substitution, Newport County. Miles Storey replaces Yan Klukowski.

Half Time

Posted at 45'+2'

First Half ends, Newport County 0, Bury 1.

Posted at 45'+1'

Attempt missed. Chris Zebroski (Newport County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.

Posted at 44'

Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Adam El-Abd.

Posted at 43'

Foul by Chris Zebroski (Newport County).

Posted at 43'

Chris Hussey (Bury) wins a free kick on the right wing.

Posted at 41'

Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.

Posted at 40'

Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Bury) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.

Posted at 36'

Attempt missed. Craig Jones (Bury) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.

Posted at 35'

Ryan Jackson (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

Posted at 35'

Foul by Tom Eaves (Bury).

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