The Imps made it 8 unbeaten with another three points this afternoon with a 2-0 win at Vale Park versus Port Vale in League One. City were gifted a chance in the second minute which Joe Taylor put away calmly, and then the points were wrapped up in the third minute of stoppage time in the second half when Dylan Duffy was brought down in the box, and Reeco Hackett-Fairchild made it 2-0.
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Post-match views from the Match Thread:
PerthImp: “Great result, stunted performance. So good without the ball, but so poor with the ball. Our use of space and running of the ball was awful. The pitch wasn’t great at all. Definitely a penalty against Hackett, so the ref made up for it with the Duffy challenge at the end – I thought it was a bit soft but we’ll take it. Onward and upward. Near 50 pts. Now for the POs.”
PortMacImp: “Port Vale were poor and were never able to apply any pressure on us. We did enough to win the game however that game will be quickly forgotten. The pitch had an effect on the quality of the play and we were able to dictate the momentum of the game. Three more welcome points and we move on to Tuesday. Jensen and Erhahon were our standouts.”
mikeosullivan: “Not a great performance but easily enough to beat a very poor side. Erhahon and McGrandles controlled the midfield and Roughan was excellent. On to a tougher game Tuesday night.”
hulloutpost: “Quietly pockets the three points and slips out of the back door.
We’re on a good run results-wise but it would be wonderful to back it up with a statement-making performance against Shrewsbury.
League table pressure and confidence are not a factor so let’s see the handbrake coming off, with some out of the blocks high intensity on Tuesday please.”
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Port Vale 0-2 Lincoln City: Post-Match Reaction & Stats:https://t.co/loOPwSN4rt#PVFC #UTV #WeAreImps
— Vital Lincoln City (@VitalLincoln) February 24, 2024
Vale Park
League One
24/02/2024 4:00 pm
Referee: James Bell
| Port Vale | Lincoln City | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor 2', Hackett-Fairchild 90+3' | |||||||
| 1. Ripley | 1. Jensen | ||||||
| 4. Sang | 23. Roughan | ||||||
| 3. Jones | 15. O'Connor (c) | ||||||
| 6. Smith (c) | 25. Mitchell | ||||||
| 27. Debrah | 2. Sørensen | 86' | |||||
| 16. Lowe | 7. Hackett-Fairchild | ||||||
| 10. Chislett | 58' | 10. Bishop | |||||
| 14. Ojo | 79' | 24. McGrandles | |||||
| 8. Garrity | 6. Erhahon | ||||||
| 20. Weir | 74' | 9. Taylor | 70' | ||||
| 29. Wilson | 14. Mândroiu | 77' | |||||
Substitutes |
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| 13. Leutwiler (GK) | 12. Wright (GK) | ||||||
| 17. Iacovitti | 22. Eyoma | 86' | |||||
| 15. Grant | 28. Moylan | 70' | |||||
| 25. Dipepa | 74' | 37. Okewoye | |||||
| 9. Loft | 79' | 17. Duffy | 77' | ||||
| 19. Massey | 58' | 27. Makama | |||||
| 21. Plant | |||||||
Game Statistics |
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| 10 | Goal attempts | 5 |
| 4 | On Target | 4 |
| 2 | Corners | 5 |
| 9 | Fouls | 7 |
| 4 | Yellow Cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 59 | % | 41 |
Normally I’d feel that a negative comment on my team is a personal affront on myself but when an oppsosing teams fans refers to us as a very poor team I can only say ‘thats fair and a very true description of ourselves’. It’s so sad to see what we’ve been allowed to become after the euphoria of only 2 years ago.
Thank you for your comment. Things will get better. We didn’t exactly have the best of starts under Michael Skubala, but now we have a few more players in the building, things have started to look really exciting, though yesterday we weren’t actually that good and came away with three points!