Craig Short admitted his Notts County side had dodged a bullet following this remarkable comeback.
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02:49, 11 Feb 2013Updated 05:29, 11 Feb 2013
CRAIG SHORT admitted his Notts County side had dodged a bullet following this remarkable comeback.
County trailed 3-1 after 90 minutes, but stoppage-time goals from Craig Westcarr and Kevin Smith rescued an unlikely point.
Ben Burgess had given the visitors hope in the first half after Josh McQuoid’s brace and a strike from Anton Robinson had put Bournemouth in control.
Short said: “We know we weren’t good enough and got lucky. I know sometimes you need a bit of luck, but we can’t keep relying on it.
“We are not jumping for joy – we know we got away with it. We were playing a team in form, but we still have to start better than that.”
Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe was left to rue his side’s late defensive lapses.
“We have made some poor decisions and that has cost us,” he said. “I didn’t think we played well really, even in the first half. But when you are 3-0 up you take it. We just went a little bit ragged in the last 10 minutes. We should have seen it out.”