Views from PerthImp following the 1-0 defeat at home to Burton Albion in League One: “A typical Dino Maamria team performance. Every time his teams do the same to us. Really well organised and solid and just nick one on the break or from a set piece. Hellishly boring to watch. Now, Lincoln City. Getting a bit fed up with the negativity of our play. We have some wonderful ball players but they seem constrained to retaining the ball at all costs, even going backwards from the front. For goodness sake let’s try having a go at the opposition. Give our ball players the chance to show what they can do. My gut tells me that’s what Danny Mandriou is getting so frustrated about. His performances have been getting more and more frustrated and I do wonder if he will want a move come January because he’s had enough of the negativity. I see some frustration in Ethan Erhahon as well occasionally. I may be missing the mark completely but I just want more entertainment and players to show what they can do. I’ve held off commenting negatively until today but every week now it seems to be the same – just about possession. Just think we need a bit more inventiveness and intensity and gamble a bit more with finding the space in and around the box. Oh well, at least Danny gets 3 games off now to get his mind in the right space.”
More views from the Match Thread:
cdhIMP: “I don’t care if we win, draw or lose as long as the players show desire and commitment. I did not see that today from the players apart from a couple of them.
Recent wins have come against the poorest league one side I’ve ever seen at the bank and the poorest u21 side I have seen visit the bank.
Erhahon stomping down the tunnel when he captained the side not long ago isn’t a good look, Mandriou with extremely poor discipline and rightly a red. Is the dressing room with MK?
Our form is terrible and our performances have been terrible too.
To dip in to the free agent market and waste money on Shodipo is horrendous judgement too.
Ah, the joys of being a Lincoln fan!”
mikeosullivan: “In all my years of being able to watch every game via iFollow, this is the poorest coached City team I can remember. Decently drilled defensively, but absolutely zero tactics going forward. “Boring” too as others have rightly described it.
Burton conceded possession to us for the whole of the first half and we had no style of attacking at all.
Even late in the game after the sending-off, our only attacking ploy was Adelakun’s long throw and aimless long balls punted into the box from the left-back position.
Awful. And nobody should defend MK because House and Walker are injured, although that will probably be his get-out-of-jail-free card with the board. He talks well, but his tactical acumen is badly lacking.”
Impish: “I would fine Mandriou the full amount and tear him a new one. Yes, the defensive goal from a corner was another error from a set piece but it looked to be heading for 0-0 before Danny and his petulance. We are already short of forward options so I guess he will get a three-game ban now?
As for the rest of the game, Burton to me were nearly as bad as Cheltenham yet they were hardly up against any sort of pressure during any of the 98 minutes. A very worrying performance against a very poor team which gives cause for concern and the faithful will soon start to be questioning MK if this keeps continuing. He always says it’s a results business, even without House, or Walker we should be doing far better with what we have at our disposal with this squad.”
Lincoln City 0-1 Burton Albion: Post-Match Views & Stats:https://t.co/vCgmu6mRol#WeAreImps #BAFC
— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) October 20, 2023
Sincil Bank
League One
14/10/2023 4:00 pm
Attendance: 7776
Referee: Rebecca Welch
| Lincoln City | Burton Albion | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burroughs (OG) 58' | |||||||
| 1. Jensen | 1. Crocombe | ||||||
| 25. Mitchell | 74' | 37. Hamer | |||||
| 5. Jackson | 3. Seddon | ||||||
| 15. O'Connor (c) | 5. Hughes | ||||||
| 2. Sørensen | 6. Sweeney | ||||||
| 16. Burroughs | 7. Powell | ||||||
| 11. Hamilton | 24. Baah | ||||||
| 6. Erhahon | 82' | 11. Bennett | 66' | ||||
| 7. Hackett-Fairchild | 82' | 4. Oshilaja | |||||
| 14. Mândroiu | 10. Gordon | 60' | |||||
| 10. Bishop | 66' | 15. Lubala | |||||
Substitutes |
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| 12. Wright (GK) | 30. Blackman (GK) | ||||||
| 22. Eyoma | 22. Caprice | 60' | |||||
| 23. Roughan | 74' | 21. Carayol | |||||
| 21. Adelakun | 66' | 25. Gilligan | |||||
| 30. Shodipo | 8. Harper | 66' | |||||
| 8. Smith | 82' | 9. Stockton | |||||
| 17. Duffy | 82' | 14. Walker | |||||
Game Statistics |
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| 10 | Goal attempts | 7 |
| 3 | On Target | 1 |
| 4 | Corners | 4 |
| 8 | Fouls | 9 |
| 1 | Yellow Cards | 4 |
| 1 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 58 | % | 42 |