Cairan Toner made his debut against Swansea and almost gave the Imps the lead after less than 20 seconds. His powerful shot was blocked by Martinez and went out for a corner. On loan Nathan Peat took the resulting corner but like most other City set plays over the last few years, it came to nothing and went out for a throw in.

Lincoln then conceeded a corner themselves on the 2 minute mark, Robinson swung the ball in, both Futcher and Bloomer failed to easily clear and Ezimo Iriekpen had an eternity of time to turn and score to make it 1-0 to Swansea. It was beginning to become a sense of deja vu as City hadn't won at Swansea since being the welsh club were relegated 4 seasons ago.

City were trying but as usual, it wasn't being effective with only Littlejohn's weak effort going anywhere near goal.

In only the 32nd minute, it was obvious Keith wasn't happy and brought on McCombe for the invisible Bloomer and the squad resorted to a 4-3-3 formation.

Toner lifted a free kick into the area to GTF who forced Gueret to make an excellent one handed save out for a corner which Toner also took but Futch's header went well wide.

The game of musical formation's continued in the 2nd half when Green came on and City reverted to the usual 5-2-3 formation which worked better for a limited time as City wasted numerous chances which could have easily seen them score 3 in the space of 3 minutes.

The rather uneventful game seemed destined to end with a 1-0 to Swansea when out of the blue came a 76th minute penalty. Monk tripped Yeo inside the penalty area and GTF had the chance to break a club goal scoring record and give City a quite frankly, undeserve route back into the game. However, it was all proved to be false how as GTF's weak penalty was tipped around the post by Gueret. The resulting corner

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