2. Shrewsbury at home showed what Skubala’s side could become
The 3-0 win over Shrewsbury was significant not simply because City won, but because of the manner of it. Under Mark Kennedy, the Imps had often been passive without the ball and limited with it, even when results occasionally looked respectable. This, by contrast, was front-foot football played with conviction. The press was aggressive, the intensity was high, and City looked like a side imposing themselves rather than reacting to the opposition.
More than any other game in that early spell, Shrewsbury felt like the moment where the identity clicked into place. There would be bigger scorelines afterwards against Barnsley, Cambridge and Bristol Rovers, but this was the performance that first made the plan feel real over a full 90 minutes. It was the first time many of us looked at Skubala’s Lincoln and thought, ‘yes, this is it’.
It was also the first time any player had attempted to recreate the Imp stance after a goal, kudos Lasse Sorensen!
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