New season, new division, new players, same old Lincoln
By Nathan Jackson
August 16 2011
Lincoln City's run of games without a win stretched to 13 after a 1-0 home defeat to Kidderminster. City's last win was a win over Southend on March 12th and since then City haven't won at all, have lost all home games and haven't even scored. Tuesday night's defeat seemed inevitable as City never looked like scoring.
City's home form towards the end of last season was awful. After the 2-1 win over Southend on March 12th our home record went 0-6, 0-4, 0-2, 0-3 and now that has been joined by a 0-1.
The first chance of the night came the way of Kyle Perry, only for the striker to hit it well wide of the target. The game was slow with City enjoying the majority of the possession, only for the visitors to then come close to opening the scoring as a header from James Vincent hitting the post. Perry again hit wide of the target from a through ball from Smith.
Guinan headed straight at Anyon and just before half time, Gowling gave away a free kick about 25 yards out, it was floated into the box and Gittings headed in without so much as a challenge from City's defence. Kidderminster almost made it 2 just before the break when Anyon made a quality save to deny Guinan.
Perry wasted his third golden opportunity of the night when he headed a Sinclair cross wide when unmarked. Nutter hit a free kick from 25 yards well wide of the target before Russell was booked.
With 20 minutes left City decided to make all three substitutions at once and after the incompetent fourth official had taken four minutes to configure the three subs into the board, Taylor, Barraclough and O'Keefe replaced Smith, Russell and Gavin McCallum. Kidderminster bought on Matt for Guinan.
Anyon again saved brilliantly from Storer before Taylor crossed across the box, only for Barraclough and Perry to both miss the ball. Perry hooked over with eight minutes later. City's frustrations at Kidderminster consistent time wasting lead to a mini-brawl breaking out that saw Fuseini, Watts and Medley all picking up yellow cards.
City couldn't force an equaliser in eight minutes of added on time and sit on just one point after two games.
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I'm just worried that 4 teams get relegated from this league and not 2
(only joking, its too early yet for comments like that but it is depressing being a Lincoln fan at the moment)
What went wrong from someone that actually went to the game?
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Impressed with Sinclair make no mistake we will get better but long season beckons
Quote:Rob Peel
What went wrong - Kiddrminster kept the ball for fun. Outmuscled us especially Gowling/Hone who for me did not look strong enough.
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Impressed with Sinclair make no mistake we will get better but long season beckons
I was only listening on the internet, but thought Hone had been dropped....Specsavers?