Views from Luke Imp following yesterday’s 2-0 defeat away at Plymouth Argyle in the Second Round of The FA Cup: “Right thing to rotate today ahead of the December schedule.
Of course, we all like a cup run and the money it can bring in (even though that will be substantially down this season), but we’ve placed ourselves nicely in the league to the point that a decent return over the next handful of games makes it interesting going into 2021.
Agree r.e. an alternative to Hopper. Real shame how it’s panned out with Morton. I think we’ll have to rely on MA to call in a favour with one of his PL mates to sort that issue out.”
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More views from the Match Thread:
Imp13: “Another lesson in how cruel football can be.
Plymouth one set-piece goal that gives them the advantage and then a stunner. We’re a better team than Plymouth but we’ve lost. That’s football. It’s rubbish. See you all Tuesday.”
hulloutpost: “Frustrating, annoying, and….football. Take the league points from this week, reflect on some good things from the game including some players getting a run-out and playing in different positions. Oh and practice the bloody finishing.
We’re only four months into this new side and at the end of a long week on the road we’ve outplayed but lost to a side with an excellent home record, having made numerous changes to our line up.
Small steps and provided we’re not still failing to hit cow’s backsides come Easter time, massive progress will be made this season.
In fact, a good time to judge will be the corresponding fixture in the league and we’ve just been handed all the incentive we need for that game.
I hope they get Middlesbrough away in the next round; I’m not bitter you understand 
.”
Merthyr Imp: “Well, we’ll play worse than that and win (as we already have done). There were good performances from most of the players but we still lost, so what can you say?
Gotts had his best game so far, although he wasn’t really tested in defence with Plymouth being so unadventurous. I thought Archibald was a bit disappointing, and dare I say Johnson was too often ineffective – two or three times he tried to beat too many players and lost the ball – although we seemed to find it difficult to get him in the game for a lot of the second half. I thought Melbourne was also a little disappointing, but Edun did well in both positions he played.
But would always rather lose in a cup tie than a league game.”
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Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Lincoln City:
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— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln1) November 29, 2020
Home Park
The FA Cup
28/11/2020 4:00 pm
Referee: David Rock
| Plymouth Argyle | Lincoln City | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jephcott 6', Reeves 55' | |||||||
| M. Cooper | Palmer | ||||||
| Wootton | Anderson | ||||||
| Canavan | Eyoma | ||||||
| Watts | Walsh | 61' | |||||
| Edwards | Melbourne | ||||||
| Grant | 72' | Gotts | |||||
| Fornah | Archibald | 68' | |||||
| Reeves | Edun | ||||||
| G. Cooper | 81' | Scully | |||||
| Nouble | Johnson | ||||||
| Jephcott | 86' | McGrandles | |||||
Substitutes |
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| Aimson | Montsma | ||||||
| Hardie | 86' | Jackson | |||||
| Telford | Jones | 68' | |||||
| Moore | Hopper | ||||||
| McCormick | Grant | 61' | |||||
| Opoku | 81' | Roughan | |||||
| Camará | 72' | Long | |||||
Game Statistics |
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| 12 | Goal attempts | 20 |
| 5 | On Target | 7 |
| 3 | Corners | 10 |
| 15 | Fouls | 13 |
| 2 | Yellow Cards | 5 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 44 | % | 56 |