Frecklington had a shot blocked for City before Austin cleared an Oakes ball to give City the game's first corner. The ball was played in and LJL was penalised for pushing. Chesterfield forced their own corner minutes later but then a controversial decision lead to a City goal. Lee Beevers headed the ball behind but the officials strangely gave a Lincoln goal kick, the ball was played upfield and a foul on Green gave City another free kick. Stefan Oakes curled the ball into the box and it missed everyone before going into the net, Stefan scoring a free kick for the second time in a week after his effort against Sheffield Wednesday for the reserves.

Patulea hit the bar from an overhead kick before Kerry was booked for a foul on Green. Oakes stepped up and his long range free kick was barely claimed by Carson in the Chesterfield goal. However, it wasn't long before the keeper was punished for a mistake. LJL drove at Carson from distance and spilled the shot straight into the path of Patulea, the Romanian slotting home with ease to make it 2-0 to the Imps and to have the Chesterfield fans chanting for their manager to be sacked.

Harsley was booked for the visitors before Jamie Ward put himself about by going in late on his former Aston Villa team-mate, Paul Green. Kovacs denied Derek Niven's cross causing any danger before Robert Page's free kick went straight at N'Guessan, he hadn't retreated 10 yards and the referee booked him. Patulea's effort was parried by Carson and Kerr tried to convert, only for the goalkeeper to get to it first and make the point clear to the City captain. That was the last action of the first half.

The second half began with a high-profile incident. The ever impressive Hone was sent off after bringing down Jack Lester. The former Forest man had broken through the defence but Hone brought him down when he was the last man and the youngster was sent off for the first time in his career, missing he will miss the next three games. Ward fired a free kick straight at the wall just seconds before Jackson made a tactical substitution, replacing Oakes with Sinclair.

City made it 3-0 within a few minutes when N'Guessan and Kerr linked up for the latter to put a deep cross into the box. Kovacs kept the ball in play as it was about to go out for a goalkick and the header curled round and into the goal via the back post. He didn't celebrate against his former side and was greeted with applause from the Chesterfield fans.

Another controversial moment followed when Danny Hall slipped whilst trying to control the ball, Patulea was about to pounce but Hall grabbed the ball and pulled it under him. Despite being the last man and denying a goalscoring opportunity, Hall was only booked. Frecklington curled a shot wide before Roberts and Currie were replacements for Hall and Kerry. Patulea was soon off as well as a clash with him and Robert Page meant that he had to be replaced by Ben Wright.

N'Guessan shot wide for City before Jack Lester pulled one back for Chesterfield. The former Forest man took advantage of a stray Beevers pass to shoot into the net, it was the goal that the visitors hadn't deserved and is was only the second shot on target they had managed, the first being the free kick in the first minute. Jamie Ward hit the cross bar soon afterwards.

Teixeria came on for Lowry before a brilliant piece of defending from Beevers saw him catch Lester and dispossess him. Neither side managed any decent efforts and the Imps had claimed a well earned three points.

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