{"id":380298,"date":"2026-04-03T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/380298\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:20:08","slug":"lincoln-city-1-0-afc-wimbledon-imps-one-point-from-promotion-after-late-ryan-one-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/380298\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln City 1-0 AFC Wimbledon: Imps one point from promotion after late Ryan One winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super-sub Ryan One grabbed an 88th-minute winner for League One leaders Lincoln as they moved to the brink of confirming promotion with a 1-0 victory over AFC Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City extended their unbeaten run to 23 matches and need just one more point from their last six matches to rubber-stamp their place in the second tier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their superior goal difference to the chasing pack means they have all but completed the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Imps were quick out of the blocks, with a sweeping move resulting in Conor McGrandles firing straight at Nathan Bishop after just 23 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then after 23 minutes, Dons midfielder Callum Maycock&#8217;s low effort brought a diving save out of City goalkeeper George Wickens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lincoln nearly took the lead five minutes before the break when Tom Bayliss&#8217; free-kick from 25 yards smacked against the crossbar and bounced away to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zack Nelson snatched at a chance after 76 minutes, blasting his effort over the bar as the ball dropped nicely for him in the Imps box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But City&#8217;s best opportunity came at the death and they took it as Dom Jefferies&#8217; cross from the left was met by One and he scrambled the ball over the line to secure another victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Super-sub Ryan One grabbed an 88th-minute winner for League One leaders Lincoln as they moved to the brink&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-380298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380298","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=380298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}