City left it late against Barnet on Saturday to chalk up their first win of the season, with goals from Dany N'Guessan and debutant Adrian Patulea securing a 2-0 victory.

With the exception of some brief Barnet pressure at the beginning of each half, City dominated the game with Rob Burch rarely troubled between the sticks. At the other end chances came and went but in the end the Imps' pressure counted when N'Guessan fired City in front in the 75th minute, netting after a Lenny John-Lewis shot came back off the post.

It was left to debutant Adrian Patulea - on as a 68th minute substitute - to make sure of the points when he fired home on the turn as N'Guessan played in the Romanian.

LINCOLN CITY
1 Rob BURCH
2 Paul GREEN
4 Janos KOVACS
6 Frank SINCLAIR
5 Lee BEEVERS
7 Stefan OAKES
8 Lee FRECKLINGTON
11 Scott KERR
12 Dany N'GUESSAN
9 Kevin GALL
15 Ben WRIGHT
 
subs 
23 Adrian PATULEA (for WRIGHT 68)
14 Lenell JOHN-LEWIS (for GALL 68)
16 Daniel HONE (for KERR 90+4)
19 Shane CLARKE
13 Ayden DUFFY

GOALS: N'GUESSAN (75), PATULEA (88)

BARNET
55 Ran KADOCH
2 Joe DEVERA
3 Kenny GILLET
4 Neal BISHOP
5 Ismail YAKUBU
8 Max PORTER
7 Albert ADOMAH
9 Cliff AKURANG
10 Adam BIRCHALL
16 Ashley CAREW
23 Paul MITCHELL
 
subs 
18 Lee HARRISON (for 55 KADOCH)
12 Luke MEDLEY (for AKURANG 78)
15 Joe TABIRI (for CAREW 85)
6 Michael LEARY
21 Aswad THOMAS

BOOKING: CAREW (20)

REFEREE: Craig Pawson (South Yorkshire)
ASSISTANTS: Peter Quinn & Jason Whiteley
FOURTH OFFICIAL: Stephen Ross

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