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  • Kick-off: 15:40
  • Venue: Griffin Park
  • Attendance: 4557
  • Referee: Linington, J

Live Commentary

90mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

90mins

The referee has booked Ben Hamer.

84mins

Lincoln are replacing Adrian Patulea with Ben Wright.

83mins

Adam Newton is being taken off, Moses Ademola has come on in his place.

74mins

Brentford are replacing Glenn Poole with Sam Wood.

70mins

The referee has booked Nathan Elder.

66mins

Marcus Bean is booked for unsporting behaviour.

60mins

Paul Green is being taken off, Daniel Hone has come on in his place.

54mins

The referee has booked Janos Kovacs.

46mins

Marvin Williams is being taken off, Mark Phillips has come on in his place.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 1.

45mins

Half time whistle is blown by J Linnington

40mins

Rob Burch is being taken off, Ayden Duffy has come on in his place.

38mins

Lee Frecklington is booked for dissent.

30mins

Goal!! Adrian Patulea scores for Lincoln.

24mins

Goal!! Brentford have scored with Nathan Elder putting it in the back of the net.

23mins

Lee Beevers goes into the referee's book for dissent.

20mins

Marvin Williams is booked for unsporting behaviour.

0mins

The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.

Match Report

Lincoln City made light of arriving at Griffin Park after the scheduled kick-off time to hold high-flying Brentford to a 1-1 draw.

The visitors were stuck in traffic and arrived at the West London ground at 3.05pm, causing the kick-off to be delayed 40 minutes.

But they put in a fine battling performance to come from behind and earn their first away point of the season.

Adrian Patulea was the star for the visitors, scoring a fine equaliser and running the home defence ragged at times.

He pulled his side level just past the half-hour mark when he picked up a flick from Lenell John-Lewis and lashed a left-footed drive past Ben Hamer in the Brentford goal.

But the home side might have felt hard done by as it came very much against the run of play.

Nathan Elder had put Brentford ahead midway through the first period when he fired home from 14 yards after Lincoln had failed to clear a long throw and that was the least the hosts deserved.

Lincoln keeper Rob Burch produced two fine low stops to deny Marvin Williams before being substituted because of injury and Elder also headed wide from close range.

Glenn Poole sliced an effort wide and Elder again came close when he steered Adam Newton's free-kick narrowly past the post.

Lincoln's best early chance fell to Patulea who saw Alan Bennett clear a header off the line but they were barely in the game before they equalised.

Lee Frecklington shot just wide for the visitors before the break and Dany N'Guessan should have won it at the death when he raced clear only for Hamer to smother at his feet.

But was Brentford who had the upper-hand and it took a fine goal-line clearance from Shane Clarke to deny Bennett a headed goal.

Charlie MacDonald had an effort saved late on but neither team could get the crucial goal and it finished all-square.

Brentford

Lincoln City

Corners

83

Fouls

1416

Goal attempts

76

Shots off target

44

Offsides

72

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