Views from imps_joe following the 1-1 draw at home against Shrewsbury Town in League One: “First and foremost, I hope Jackson and Teddy are not in too bad shape. Another case of bad luck.
Another frustrating game that summarises our season really. At times we looked good, but we are flawed in a few key areas.
Up to our goal, I thought we were pretty decent. The goal was a superb move and finish by Mcgrandles who was easily man of the match. Unfortunately, the time up to half time and the 15 minutes after half time was torrid. After going behind Shrewsbury did whatever team that causes us problems do… stand up the pitch and press high. We were terrible and they smelt blood, thankfully after they scored they went back to being deep again.
We are not comfortable defending balls in the box. I can’t understand it because the defence individually are decent in the air, but collectively we are vulnerable to balls in the box. We could not deal with their corners and long throws. Otherwise, Shrewsbury were very limited.
Midfield (Mcgrandles apart) were not offering enough, too lightweight and limited movement.
The play was very laboured and predictable. For the majority of the game, Shrewsbury sat deep and we didn’t counter fast enough. Most attacks we allowed them to set up and organise their defence making them hard to break down. We aren’t the fastest team and don’t have a player to take on a man.
Execution and decision making in the final third cost us.
Finally consistency! We have the makings of a good team and have shown signs of real promise but it constantly feels like 3 steps forward 2 back. N’Lundulu was a handful and Sanders must be banging on the door for a start. Was good to see Draper and would like to see him get more minutes.
We weren’t awful, and we were far from great. We are frustrating.”
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More views from our Match Thread:
Gaz_Imp: “Everything felt flat today. Very very flat.
The positives for me were Maguire who showed some quality, N’Lundulu lively and thought Sanders looked good when he came on except one poor cross.
Robson looked shattered.
Find Adelakun incredibly frustrating. Very rare I criticise players online but he looks a poor signing. How we’ve let Anderson go and signed him is beyond me.
Crowd very quiet. Rare off day for the 617?”
StrangelyBrown: “If I were the great Brian Moore on the Big Match Revisited and was summing up the game today I’d call it a “low-key affair”.
The first 10 mins were a bit meh as both teams had a number of passes go astray- a bit stop-start. In fact, the whole first half felt disjointed (not just the delay in-game for Jackson’s injury). Still, 1-0 up at half-time was fair. Shrewsbury didn’t look very good at all.
The second half was much more balanced- their aerial threat into our box posed us problems all second half.
Similar to the Wednesday game to be honest- two average teams playing an average game which left us 12th (bang average) going into a 3-week league break.
Not a disaster, not awful or dire- not scintillating or joyful.
Nlundulu was active, created problems, and had our best chance in the first half through one on one with their keeper. He scores and different game. But he’s young and older players than him have missed a one-on-one.
Poole and Maguire had decent games going forward but the whole back four second half looked very uneasy with the “lob” throw in which kept coming in as MA said after the game, if we know what problems that causes us, don’t head it out for a throw, just put it back into midfield and battle it out there.
I’m not sure any player had a mare but not too many were 8/10 either.
A fair result for two teams not on their uppers.
17 attempts on goal for us, 7 on target. We went forward with intent today in the main (and had the ball in the net for a second goal ruled offside).
Finally, for those who booed at the end, go find someone else to follow.”
Riiiiik:“Well, that’s two games in a week where could have been 3 goals up at half-time. Wednesday last Saturday and today. Only a short while ago some fans were bemoaning our lack of chances, at least we’re making chances now and it’s only a matter of time before we put more of them away. We’re going in the right direction.”
Thank you to Graham Burrell and Lincoln City Football Club for the photograph!
Have a go at our Lincoln City versus Shrewsbury Town Quizzes, published last season (they were all correct at the time they were published):
Lincoln City 1-1 Shrewsbury Town:
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— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) November 5, 2021
Sincil Bank
League One
30/10/2021 4:00 pm
Attendance: 8047
Referee: Robert Madley
| Lincoln City | Shrewsbury Town | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McGrandles 42' | Leahy 50' | ||||||
| Griffiths | Marosi | ||||||
| Poole | Nurse | ||||||
| Robson | 74' | Ebanks-Landell (c) | |||||
| Montsma | Pennington | ||||||
| Jackson | 37' | Bennett | |||||
| McGrandles (c) | Ogbeta | ||||||
| Fiorini | 65' | Whalley | |||||
| Sørensen | 85' | Leahy | |||||
| Maguire | Davis | ||||||
| Bishop | 45' | Udoh | 76' | ||||
| N'Lundulu | Bowman | 90' | |||||
Substitutes |
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| Mair (GK) | Burgoyne | ||||||
| Bramall | 74' | Pierre | |||||
| Eyoma | 37' | Leshabela | |||||
| Adelakun | 45' | Bloxham | 90' | ||||
| Sanders | 65' | Caton | |||||
| Draper | 85' | Cosgrove | |||||
| Longdon | Pyke | 76' | |||||
Game Statistics |
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| 17 | Goal attempts | 17 |
| 7 | On Target | 7 |
| 4 | Corners | 8 |
| 11 | Fouls | 11 |
| 2 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 64 | % | 36 |