Lincoln City took a big step towards promotion as they dethroned Cardiff City at the top of League One with a 2-0 win.<\/p>\n
It was a game of few chances at the Cardiff City Stadium, though the Imps had goalkeeper George Wickens to thank for a brilliant save to deny Ollie Tanner’s whipped effort.<\/p>\n
Wickens was called into action a minute later to keep out Rubin Colwill’s effort, and the Cardiff forward saw another shot deflected narrowly wide seconds after.<\/p>\n
The Bluebirds finished the first half on top and started the second in the ascendency, but it was the visitors who took the lead after 55 minutes in south Wales.<\/p>\n
Rob Street’s flick on played Ben House through into the Cardiff box, and House’s return ball put it on a plate for the Imps striker, who found the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
Cardiff head coach Brian Barry-Murphy turned to his bench to try and inspire a comeback, bringing on Callum Robinson and Chris Willock in response to seeing his side go a goal down.<\/p>\n
But it was a Lincoln substitute who made the telling impact, as Dom Jeffries finished off another counter-attack to double their advantage with quarter of an hour left to play.<\/p>\n
For all their possession the hosts could not break down the resolute Lincoln defence, with Colwill coming closest after 78 minutes with a shot through a crowd of bodies which went fractionally wide of the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
Robinson also saw an effort saved, as Cardiff went in search of an unlikely late double. But the hosts could not find a way past Wickens, as the Bluebirds tasted defeat at home in the league for the first time since September.<\/p>\n
Defeat also saw Cardiff surrender top spot in League One for the first time since late November, as they fall two points behind the Imps.<\/p>\n
Lincoln meanwhile open up a 13-point gap to third-place Bolton Wanderers, who play later on Saturday at home against Wycombe Wanderers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lincoln City took a big step towards promotion as they dethroned Cardiff City at the top of League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-462772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}