'Not about them' - Players lost to Huddersfield Town not a focus for Lincoln City boss Michael Skubala
Lincoln City have lost a player to Huddersfield Town in each of the last two summer transfer windows - but the pair are not at the forefront of Michael Skubala’s mind.
At the end of Skubala’s first season in charge of the Imps, utility man Lasse Sorensen was prised from the LNER Stadium by the Terriers.
A year later, defender Sean Roughan turned down a new Lincoln deal and completed a free transfer move to the Accu Stadium.
The pair could feature against their former club tonight (March 17), when table-toppers Lincoln make the journey to West Yorkshire.
Familiar faces
Previewing the game, Skubala said: “It feels ages ago now that Lasse and Sean were here, and they’ve obviously had their own challenges trying to get in and out of the team there.
“We’ve developed a really strong squad here, so it’s not about them. It’s about what we do and how we go about the game, that’s the most important thing.”
“It doesn’t matter who we play against, where they are in the league, these three points are really important to us. Every game is worth the same.
“We want to go after them and we want to make sure we put every effort in to go after the three points in what is going to be a very tough away game.”
Lincoln City out to attack
Huddersfield are under pressure to produce with their spot in the League One top six hanging by a thread.
Liam Manning’s men drew the ire of their own supporters at the weekend following a goalless stalemate away at rock-bottom Port Vale.
Skubala said: “They’ve changed a bit over the last few games. They’re very well coached in how they want to play. They’ve conceded fewer goals over the last 10 games, but we know they’re a really good outfit at home with big resources like the big clubs in this league.
“They’re really tough to play against at home. We’re going to have to be front-footed, we’re going to have to be aggressive and we’re going to have to take the game to them.
“That’s what we want to do. I think we’ve earned the right to go and take the game to them. We want to go and challenge and hopefully we can come out with three points.”