Alassana Jatta: Notts County striker handed three-match ban by FA

Notts County striker Alassana Jatta has been handed a three-match ban by the FA for an incident which occurred within the 79th minute of Friday’s last-gasp 2-1 defeat by Salford City.

Jatta, who’s Notts County’s high scorer with 15 targets this season, will now miss Monday’s League Two recreation in opposition to Newport County in addition to matches in opposition to Cambridge United and Barnet.

“The forward’s behaviour around the 79th minute of the fixture wasn’t seen by match officials at the time, but it was caught on video, and the FA subsequently alleged that it constituted violent conduct,” an FA statement said., external

“Alassana Jatta admitted the charge against him and accepted the standard punishment of a three-match suspension for violent conduct.”

Notts County are fourth within the desk and solely exterior the automated promotion locations on purpose distinction with 5 matches remaining.

Head coach Martin Paterson has already criticised the Magpies’ disciplinary document this season following their defeat by Oldham on 25 March during which Oliver Norburn was proven a second pink card in three video games and the membership’s fifth in whole this season.

“When you are pushing for things in the league, five sending-offs generally means you are not going to quite get there because it’s just too many,” Paterson informed BBC Radio Nottingham on the time.