Lincoln City City and Morecambe are scheduled to exchange tackles in the 31st week of the EFL League One campaign. Match day is scheduled for 8th February 2022 at 22:45 EAT.
The home team has been on the losing side in their last two fixtures and they will look to avoid the third loss in a row here. Currently they are in the 18th spot with 31 points after 28 league matches. Coming into this game Lincoln City has picked up six points from the last five games both home and away. Both teams scored in four of those games and Lincoln has scored seven goals.
The Imps will be looking to better their performance coming 2-1 League One loss at the hands of MK Dons. In that game, Lincoln managed 49% possession, eight shots with four of them on target and goals scored by John Marquis 8’. MK Dons got 11 shots with four of them on target and goals scored by Harry Darling 39’ and Warren O’Hora 47’.
Morecambe meanwhile, have been taking a considerable amount of points in recent games for a team hanging on the relegation clearance. Coming into this game, Morecambe has picked up five points from the last five games both home and away. Both teams scored in four of those games and Morecambe scored seven goals in that period.
Morecambe comes into this fixture hoping for better results after they held each other to 1-1 League One tie with Bolton Wanderers in their previous match. In that game, Morecambe had 45% possession, 13 shots with seven of them on target and a goal scored by Cole Stockton 73’. Bolton Wanderers got nine shots with only one of them on target and a goal by Amadou Bakayoko 90+14’.
Lincoln City vs Morecambe head to head
Since 2007 these two teams have 13 games against each other in which Bolton has five wins, there have been five draws and Bolton has three wins.
- Morecambe 2-0 Lincoln 28/09/21
- Morecambe 0-2 Lincoln 23/02/19
- Lincoln 3-1 Morecambe 15/12/18
- Morecambe 0-0 Lincoln 24/03/18
- Lincoln 1-1 Morecambe 12/08/17
Home
- Milton Keynes 2-1 Lincoln
- Lincoln 1-2 Burton
- Plymouth 1-2 Lincoln
- Lincoln 0-1 Cambridge
- Sunderland 1-3 Lincoln
Away
- Morecambe 1-1 Bolton
- Sheffield Wed 2-0 Morecambe
- Accrington 2-2 Morecambe
- Morecambe 3-2 Wycombe
- Morecambe 1-2 Wigan
Lincoln City team news
Coach Michael Appleton is yet to confirm the participation of Adam Jackson, Joe Walsh and Hakeeb Adelakun in this match.
Morecambe team news
As or the visitors, Freddie Price is unavailable due to injury while Aaron Wildig is in doubts.
Prediction and odds
The Imps have all the odds to win in this game having one of the better defenses by any team in the bottom half of the league table and are the better team on paper unlike the opponents.
- Lincoln City win
- Goals over 2.5
- Both teams to score
