Match Report
12 points and 4 places separated them: Lincoln City 5th with 77, Hull City 1st with 89. Lincoln City ranked just 17th in the league on five-round form despite their 5th table position. Per game in the league, Lincoln City were scoring 1.5 and conceding 1.09, Hull City 1.74 and 0.83, against a competition average of 1.31 goals per team per game.
Lincoln City entered with three wins in a row, having scored in 6 consecutive games. Hull City's unbeaten run stood at 12, having scored in 12 consecutive games.
LNER Stadium in Lincoln staged the fixture, a ground that holds 10,780. On the scoreboard, Hull City led 1-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 1-2.