Eastleigh FC

🎥 Eastleigh 0-1 Lincoln City Highlights from BT Sport - National League Highlights Show: https://t.co/Zyx0BjiyiA #Spitfires pic.twitter.com/c8G1FeAIt5 — Jamie Montigue (@jamiemontigue) April 9, 2017

Quotes from manager Richard Hill and goalkeeper Graham Stack after Eastleigh were unlucky in a narrow defeat against Lincoln City. Richard Hill: “I can’t fault the lads today. For long periods we were the better team. “It’s in games like that that you have to take your chances, but I was pleased with the performance from start to finish. It was much improved from last week - it needed to be. “How Lincoln play, they do it very well, but we didn’t deserve to lose. “The build-up to the goal was disappointing. There was a foul on Craig McAllister not given and ten seconds later a very similar foul’s been given on one of their players. Instead of us putting the ball in their box, they’ve put it into ours and it was the only time in the game that we didn’t defend well.” Graham Stack:  “We created good chances and were really unlucky. "From an individual perspective, I was disappointed with how I played last week, but today’s performance was exactly what we neede...

Richard Hill's post-match reaction after Eastleigh lose 1-0 at home against league leaders Lincoln City.

Eastleigh were unlucky in defeat to league leaders Lincoln City at the Silverlake Stadium. Sean Raggett scored the only goal of the game for the visitors with a 77th minute header. Eastleigh: Graham Stack, Michael Green, Sam Togwell, Paul Reid, Adam Dugdale, Gavin Hoyte, Sam Matthews (Matt Tubbs, 72), Ben Close (James Constable, 84), Scott Wilson (Ayo Obileye, 72), Craig McAllister, Hakeem Odoffin. Subs (not used): Chinua Cole, James Constable, Ben Strevens. Referee: Adam Bromley. Attendance: 2,738 (659 from Lincoln) As it happened: . @EastleighFC 0-1 Lincoln City https://t.co/qgmai3osY0 #Spitfires — Jamie Montigue (@jamiemontigue) April 8, 2017 EASTLEIGH 0 LINCOLN CITY 1: Spitfires so unlucky against league leaders Lincoln Eastleigh 0 Lincoln City 1. IF Lincoln City go on to win the Vanarama National League title, they may well remember this as the day they got off the hook.

Matt Tubbs looks ahead to Eastleigh's game against top of the table Lincoln City.

Richard Hill looks ahead to Eastleigh's game against top of the table side Lincoln City. Hill said: “It’s a tough game for us, but the lads have trained well and we’ve spoken about needing to get a bit of pride back after a disappointing performance last week. “We’ve got a few tired bodies and niggly injuries and Saturday might come too soon for one or two. But it’s April – you’re meant to have sore bodies.” Read the full article from the Daily Echo: Eastleigh boss Richard Hill salutes his Lincoln City counterpart ahead of big Silverlake showdown ON paper, you wouldn't get many takers for an Eastleigh win over mighty National League leaders Lincoln City at the Silverlake Stadium on Saturday (3pm). But the Imps themselves have shown that anything is possible this season, becoming the first club to fly the non-League flag into the FA Cup quarter-finals in 103 years.