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City left to count the cost of wasted chances.
By Nathan Jackson September 1 2007
Lincoln City's mini unbeaten run came to an end at the hand of Dagenham, that despite the Imps dominating long periods of the game and wasting several chances to take the lead before an 87th minute goal won the game for the hosts. Dany N'Guessan, Mark Stallard and Lee Frecklington all had one-on-one situations but all 3 times saw them either miss the target or were saved by Tony Roberts.

City kicked off the game and launched the game's first attack, but it was cleared by the defence and Dagenham's counter attack resulted in a corner. The set piece was floated in and Marriott punched clear at the second attempt. A seemingly identical situation came against a few minutes later.

City started to control the game by playing football whilst the Daggers were seemingly sticking to the long ball game, and the Imps first chance of the game came in the 13th minute when Forrester shot from the edge of the area before it was well. Jamie Hand tried his luck from long range a few minutes later after a scramble on the edge of the area.

A Nat Brown injury saw the Imps down to 10 men for a few minutes whilst he was recieving treatment, thankfully the ball was constantly in the Dagenham half as City launched one unsuccessful attack after another. Whenever it did come down City's end that ball was cleared, although Alan Marriott looked less than secure in his goal, flapping at everything that came near him.

Dagenham had their first chance in nearly 30 minutes when they won a free kick after a foul from N'Guessan. Sloma took the set piece but it came to nothing. Jamie Hand was booked for passing the ball to Dany N'Guessan, yes, what you just read is indeed true. He got to the ball with no Dagenham player particularly near him and he past to N'Guessan, then got a yellow card, very strange.

A Lee Frecklington free kick was headed goalwards by Nat Brown, it was heading into the bottom corner until Stallard got in the way of it. The ball was still heading goalwards but Roberts produced a fantastic save to keep it out, if Stallard hadn't touched it then it would have been 1-0 City. Alas, the sides went in goalless at the break.

City launched a counter attack following a corner and Mark Stallard ended up in a nearly identical situation to that which he scored from at Mansfield. He tried the same thing again but unfortunately only found the advertising behind the goals. Dodds was booked for unsporting behaviour soon afterwards.

Strevens missed the target for the hosts before N'Guessan was put through by Hand. The Frenchman ran through one-on-one with Roberts and despite Roberts getting a touch, it appeared to be heading into the net and went just mere inches wide. Benson replaced Moore for Dagenham.

Hand had a chance cleared off of the line by Griffiths in the 74th minute before Brown cleared a chance off of City's line after another Marriott flap. Dodds came on for Ollie Ryan for City before Strevens was replaced by Taylor for the hosts. Frecklington was the next to waste a one-on-one as he hit his shot from close range straight at Roberts.

N'Guessan gave a free kick away about 20 yards out from the box and Sloma took the kick. It found it's way to Benson and he headed past Marriott to make it 1-0 in the 87th minute.

Late substitutions for the Imps were the last noteable event of the game as City slipped to 9th place.

 

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