{"id":259450,"date":"2026-01-23T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259450\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:40:08","slug":"moylan-earns-magic-man-praise-from-lincoln-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259450\/","title":{"rendered":"Moylan earns &#8216;magic man&#8217; praise from Lincoln boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Moylan was called the &#8220;magic man&#8221; by Lincoln boss Michael Skubala after the Dubliner&#8217;s double secured a 2-1 League One victory over Burton.<\/p>\n<p>Former Shelbourne striker Moylan scored in both halves, either side of Jake Beesley\u2019s equaliser, as the Imps closed the gap on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/0616\/1518778-cardiff-appoint-barry-murphy-as-new-head-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Barry-Murphy<\/a>&#8216;s league-leading Cardiff to three points and stretched their unbeaten league run to 10 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Moylan, who also played for Bohemians and on loan at Wexford during his time in the League of Ireland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2023\/1109\/1415590-moylan-signs-off-from-shels-as-player-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joined Lincoln from Shelbourne in January 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call Jack the magic man as he finds these magic moments,&#8221; said Skubala.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes in these tight games, you need that sort of individual. I thought his first goal was magnificent and the second one, he scores those types of goals all the time in training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moylan created the opener out of nothing in the 35th minute, surging towards the visitors\u2019 box and scoring from 25 yards via Bradley Collins\u2019 left-hand post.<\/p>\n<p>Burton levelled two minutes later as Jack Armer\u2019s cross from the left was slammed home by an unmarked Beesley.<\/p>\n<p>But 10 minutes after the break, Moylan slotted home the winner after goalkeeper Collins spilled Freddie Draper\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Moylan was called the &#8220;magic man&#8221; by Lincoln boss Michael Skubala after the Dubliner&#8217;s double secured a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-259450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}