Forest Green Rovers 3-3 Lincoln City

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Forest Green Rovers pulled off a remarkable comeback from three goals down against Lincoln to extend their unbeaten run to six games.

Delano Sam-Yorke nodded home after nine minutes, before goals from Karl Ledsham and Jordan Burrow either side of half-time put the Imps in control.

But James Norwood scored twice in two minutes, once from the spot, to set up a tense finale.

The turnaround was complete when Dale Bennett netted in added time.

Forest Green Rovers manager Ady Pennock told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:

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Pennock on Forest Green v Lincoln

"It was like a win. The substitutes made a good impact, scored a cracking second goal and once you get that first goal you're on the front foot.

"I was disappointed with the first hour, but you've got to give them credit as well, we know what they're all about and we didn't deal with it.

"We're on a good roll at the moment, and it's a squad not a team.

"Everybody's coming in and doing their job, but don't get me wrong, I'll be speaking to them on Monday about the goals we conceded in the first hour of the game."

Lincoln City manager Gary Simpson told BBC Radio Lincolnshire:

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Simpson on Forest Green v Lincoln

"I thought we'd seen it out, we'd played four minutes (of added time) and the cross comes in, hits two people, ricochets to their player and he puts it in the bottom corner. I'm disappointed, it feels like a defeat, but in saying that, at Grimsby we scored in the last seconds to win.

"We only had to fill the holes and they wouldn't have got through us. The wide players had no need to go wide or go forward and Farms (Paul Farman) should have kicked it into the corner flag and wasted a bit more time and slowed the game up, it's game management.

"We're still learning but can take heart from the performance because we're disappointed not to win. To come here and take the game to them and get on top and play like we did was credit to us."

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