Lincoln City have been one of the surprise packages in League One this season. Despite the Imps being 18th in the financial table, Michael Skubala’s side sit second in the third tier.
Northampton Town, meanwhile, are down in 17th position, but they will not be taken lightly in Lincolnshire.
In their last six games, Kevin Nolan’s men have been in indifferent form, winning two, drawing a double and suffering the same amount of defeats.
The two teams are set to do battle this evening at 7:45pm at The LNER Stadium.
Speaking to BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Skubala did not show his hand:
“Only if it’s right,” he said, firmly on the fence. “I think there’s lots of things that go into that. Saturday to Saturday games is different from Saturday to Tuesday to Saturday games. Individuals within that deal with that differently as well.“
“There’s so much detail. I know it looks like I’ll just pick the same team because they’re doing well. It’s never been that and there’s been changes within that. So, I’m not averse to changing and tweaking if we need to, but at the same time that means sometimes not changing.”
The 43-year-old did admit that things may have to change in the near future:
“I think we’ll get to a period or we’ll get to games where we need to, and that’s to make sure that we keep the lads fresh that are doing very, very well. But also, you have to understand that players need to play sometimes to stay strong as a group.”
“Sometimes when players don’t play for long periods then they need friendlies, they need more work behind the scenes.”
Skubala went on to admit that he will need the whole of his squad for the run-in:
“We’ve got a really strong squad and I trust anybody from the squad, even the lads that are not even in the 18. I trust everybody who can start a game for us. We’re a solid squad.”
“We’re in a good place. We just got to keep making sure that we make the right decisions from a physical point of view, mentality point of view, and hopefully we can keep the performances going.”
