Lincoln City 2-1 Forest Green Rovers: result and report

League Two · Saturday 30 December 2017

Result

Lincoln City 2-1 Forest Green Rovers

League Two · Saturday 30 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Lincoln City 2-1 Forest Green Rovers: match report

Lincoln City beat Forest Green Rovers 2-1 in the League Two on Saturday 30 December 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.

M. Rhead opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Lincoln City's goals came from M. Rhead (8') and M. Rhead (57'). Forest Green Rovers scored through Christian Doidge (24').

Discipline: Lincoln City received 1 yellow card; Forest Green Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Lincoln City were 3rd on 40 points from 24 and Forest Green Rovers 24th on 20 points from 23. Lincoln City went on to finish that season 7th with 76 points, and Forest Green Rovers 21st with 47.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Lincoln City win, 0 draws and 0 for Forest Green Rovers.

Going into the match Lincoln City's last five read W-D-W-W-W and Forest Green Rovers's L-L-L-D-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · M. RheadLincoln City · 1-0
  • 24'Goal · Christian DoidgeForest Green Rovers · 1-1
  • 25'Yellow card · Lee CollinsForest Green Rovers
  • 57'Goal · M. RheadLincoln City · 2-1
  • 62'Yellow card · Michael BostwickLincoln City

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Lincoln City 1, draws 0, Forest Green Rovers 0.

Team news

Lincoln City line-up

Josh Vickers, Samuel Habergham, Rob Dickie, Neal Eardley, Sean Raggett, Michael Bostwick, Harry Anderson, Nathan Arnold, Alex Woodyard, Matthew Rhead, Matt Green

Forest Green Rovers line-up

Brad Collins, Scott Laird, Lee Collins, Manny Monthe, Mark Roberts, Reece Brown, Charlie Cooper, Isaiah Osbourne, Christian Doidge, Dan Wishart, Luke James