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For the Magpies, it’s four years in the National League - and so far every one has ended in play-off agony.

For Chesterfield it’s the start of a fifth year since dropping out of League Two.

They’ve both had an unbeaten start and next it’s a match which usually carries a bit of needle.

The live BT Sport game sees the rivals lock horns at it’s a fixture that usually produces.

Who could forget their play-off epic last year when Mark Ellis' 90th-minute header gave Notts County victory?

Paul Cook’s Spireites have started with swagger. Handicapped at Dorking Wanderers but coming away with a point, they then went and defeated Aldershot Town.

It means little at this stage of course but on Tuesday victory over Wrexham was an early physiological blow landed to a big promotion foe.

Notts always score a home - you need to go back to the 2020-21 season for the last time they didn’t find the net in front of their fans in a league game.

They started with three against Maidenhead before drawing their last two on the road, held at Boreham Wood andat Gateshead in midweek.

New manager Luke Williams saw his team produce an 88th minute escape act at the International Stadium.

An own goal preserved their early unbeaten record but he knows they’ll need to be better in the Saturday tea-time match.

“It was a bit get-out-of-jail but I also feel we could have had the game wrapped up in the first half,” he told the club’s video player.

“Much of the performance I loved, and to their credit the opposition were fantastic.

“But we are a big club and we have to play with courage. We need to practice and improve how we play. We need to improve and practice what we do.”

Kyle Cameron mistake’s error got them in hot water in the north east, under-hitting a back pass to hand the Heed a chance which Tommy Allen tucked away.

“Kyle is so strong and he is going to come back from that,” his manager Williams said.

“It’s a team game and we have many opportunities to score. But it’s a mistake - he is so strong and he is going to come back from that.”

Chesterfield couldn’t go into the game in a more confident mood but they know Notts on their own patch will provide a stern test.

“They have a totally different style to Wrexham, but there is no right or wrong way,” first-team coach Gary Roberts said told the Derbyshire Times

"Luke Williams is a terrific coach. I know a few players who have played for Luke. He is a nice fella.

"I have watched them quite a bit this season, they have a lot of rotations in the middle of the pitch, they stretch you with the wing-backs, and they have got three lads at the back who like to play football.

"They are a footballing team, that is the way they have played for a couple of years now, and they are really good at it.”

He added: "It should be a good game, two good teams who are desperate to win, desperate to get out of this division.”