Cambridge are next up for The Imps

Seventeenth placed Lincoln City will take on eleventh placed Cambridge United at Sincil Bank in the conference Premier. Kick off will be at 7:45. The Imps come into this game full of confidence after their recent run of games that has seen them maximum points in the space of a week, beating Newport, Hayes and Yeading to move them out of the relegation places and up to a relatively safe 17th in the table. Cambridge on the other hand lie in eleventh place and seemingly too far off of the play off places following a run of results that have consisted of just two wins in their last ten matches and six defeats.

In their last game Cambridge did attain a very good home draw to second placed Wrexham, but have had very indifferent form all season which has severely dented any hopes that they had of going up via the play offs this season. This is another former football league side that is struggling to win promotion from this highly contested and competitive division.

Cambridge will come into this game hoping to keep alive any hopes they have to sneak into the play off places, but they will know a win is needed a draw will not be of much use for them. Against Wrexham Cambridge deployed a 4-2-1-3 formation instead of the accustomed 4-5-1 that has been used most of the time this season. This change in tactics seemed to have worked with only a late goal denying them three points against Wrexham.

Midfielder Tom Shaw, who scored in the previous match, has had a successful season and will be relied upon to cause problems to the Lincoln defence. He has scored 6 goals in the league this season and is a joint top scorer for the side along side strikers Gash and Dunk. Cambridge have had a relatively settled squad all season, unlike ourselves, but their main problem has been scoring goals with only 47 so far this season.

Lincoln should have no further injuries and hopefully Bore, who was replaced at half time against Tamworth, will be fit enough to be in contention for a starting place. McCammon and Laurent who were both dropped form the squad following the win away to Alfreton could return, although it is unsure how serious McCammons injury has been. For me Jamie Taylor played himself into the starting eleven following his superb substitute appearance on Saturday.

The form of new signing Miller could well be an important part of this game, if he can continue how he has begun his Imps career then I think we will have a real chance of keeping a clean sheet again tonight.

I am going for a win, 2-1 to the Imps. Cambridge have struggled to score goals of late and the confidence must be sky high in the Imps dressing room following three wins on the bounce. I hope there will be a good crowd down at the Bank tonight and will get behind the team like they have for the past few games.

A win tonight and we can really begin to plan for another season in the Conference Premier.