Recap: Chesterfield start 2022 with a win against King's Lynn to extend lead at top of National League
With no other games in the National League today, the Spireites will go three points clear at the top of the table with a victory.
The Linnets, who appointed Tommy Widdrington as manager last month, are second bottom and five points from safety.
Our reporter Liam Norcliffe is at the game and will provide all the build-up, team news, updates and reaction.
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Key Events
- FT: Chesterfield 1 v 0 King’s Lynn Town (3pm KO)
- Spireites go three points clear at top of league
- Liam Mandeville opens scoring on 51 minutes
- 3-4-2-1: Loach; Williams, Gunning, Whittle; King, Weston, Oyeleke, Miller; Khan, Mandeville; Tshimanga. Subs: Grimes, Kerr, Kellermann, Asante, Payne.
- First game of 2022
- Jeff King starts after returning from injury
Goalless at the break
HT: Chesterfield 0 v 0 King’s Lynn Town
Frustrating half for the Spireites. They have controlled it in the main but they haven’t created enough.
Good cross
Mandeville plays in Miller down the left, he flashes a powerful cross across the box but nobody was there to finish.
Chance for Whittle
Miller’s low cross from the left is cut out at the near post, the ball falls to Whittle but he side-foots into the side-netting from a tight angle.
Four minutes to the break.
Scrappy
It’s gone a bit scrappy in the last five minutes. Weston fires one well over the bar from distance. Approaching the half-hour mark.
Chance for Tshimanga
Oyeleke plays a lovely pass into him inside the box but a sliding tackle comes in and it goes behind for a corner, which comes to nothing.
Goalless after 24 minutes.