Wycombe started off the game and were unsurprisingly on top early on. They pounced on a mistake to launch a counter attack, resulting in a corner. Although it came to nothing, the early trend of this game was set and Wycombe won two more quickfire corners, neither came to nothing. For the fourth game running, Janos Kovacs overhit a back-pass to Rob Burch and the keeper struggled to deal with it, conceded yet another corner before City actually got into Wycombe's half of the pitch. Shearer catching the ball before Frecklington could pounce.

The Chairboys were piling on the pressure and took a deserved lead on the thirteen minute mark when Lee Beevers played the ball straight to Craig Woodman when under no pressure at all. Woodman proceeded with the ball and mishit it cross, it flew over everyone and Burch couldn't do anything as it nestled in the back of the net to give Wycombe a rather flukey, but well deserved lead.

Zebroski was only prevented a run on goal thanks to a tackle from Green before City won their first corner, shockingly it came to nothing. The Imps were coming into the game a little more and a few more forced corners later almost resulted in disaster. City's inability to find a player in their own shirt proved the catalyst for a Wycombe counter attack, Mousinho seeing his long range effort deflected and barely touched over by Burch for a corner that came to nothing.

N'Guessan's volley sailed over before McGleish only just missed a Doherty cross. Kevin Gall shot wide from close range but that was the final noteworthy incident of the first half and City were deservedly behind to a strong Wycombe side.

Spence was replaced by Ashton at half time and City had the first attack, McGleish clearing a corner at the near post before Wycombe appealed for a penalty, Williamson going down rather dramatically under a challenge from Green, the referee waved play-on. N'Guessan's shot was deflected wide and Beevers found shot wide from the resulting corner.

Grant broke through in the 58^th minute but his effort hit the side netting before Scott Kerr was replaced by Shane Clarke, Lee Beevers taking over as captain. A double save from Burch denied McGleish before the veteran strikers required treatment on an injury. N'Guessan fired wide before Zebroski came within inches of making it 2-0 to the hosts.

A second half that wasn't full of incident entered its final 15 minutes as David Graham and Gary King came on for the "dangerous" (according to Wycombe's programme) pairing of Kevin Gall and Ben Wright. Graham won a free kick within seconds but another Wycombe counter attack again saw Burch save from Zebroski.

Wycombe should have sealed the game with 10 minutes to go when neat play saw McGleish break free of the defence. His shot rattled the cross bar before Grant fired wide of the post. Frecklington headed wide but couldn't equalise for City and the Imps suffered their fifth defeat in a row stretching back into last season.                                                                                                                           

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