Notts County boss Luke Williams has told fans not to expect a similar scoreline to the one witnessed a Grosvenor Vale earlier in the season when they welcome Wealdstone to the East Midlands this weekend.
The Magpies ran riot in northwest London back in October, with Macaulay Langstaff, Adam Chicksen (2), Matty Palmer, Aaron Nemane, and Geraldo Bajrami seeing Notts score six goals away from home since February 1924.
But Stuart Maynard's side has impressed for much of the campaign, one of the only sides in the division that remain a part-time team and competing for a place in the play-offs as they occupy 10th place, eight points from Eastleigh.
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In the previous meeting between the two sides, the Stones boss admitted that the Notts team assembled by Williams was the best he had seen in the National League, but the Magpies head coach expressed his recognition for Maynard and the job he has done with his group of players this campaign.
"Without a doubt, he has done a brilliant job because when you watch them you can clearly see the work unfolding in front of you on the pitch, and they have a different set-up to us, more challenging actually.
"We are extremely well catered for and we know that and appreciate that and they have more challenges than ourselves, so really the work that Stuart has done there is excellent and of a very high level."
A lot has been made of the style of play instilled at Grosvenor Vale, drawing comparisons to Williams' way of playing with a clear intent on patient, possession-based football with the ability to counter-attack.
Wealdstone's most recent fixture against Oldham last week saw another example of the fine football being played under Maynard's instruction, with Sonny Blu Lo-Everton finishing off an 18-pass move to put his side 2-1 up against the Latics.
And while many Notts fans could be predicting this Friday's fixture already a foregone conclusion ahead of their trip to the Racecourse Ground on Monday, Williams explained why his side's performance earlier in the season against the Stones is not something that will determine the outcome of their latest contest.
"There is a lot of respect and I think to put the game at their place into context, we started the game very well and were able to score goals early on.
"The other thing we should remember from that game is that we scored goals that are very difficult to convert, so on a different day that would not have been the case.
"It was almost like the perfect storm in terms of the way we started and in terms of taking difficult opportunities to score being converted, but everything fell into place for us and once you are in front very early, you have a different confidence and play with a different freedom, and we were able to be very dominant on the day.
"We don't look at the game and think everything is going to be fine, or that this team are going to be easy to play against, we don't - we are not naïve enough to think that we were that good on the day that the result was inevitable.
"It was a combination of us playing well and good fortune that gave us that great start, so we look at them and know this team is very well coached and are a very difficult model to play against and we know that."
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