REPORT: Lincoln City 0 Wigan Athletic 0 - Aasgaard comes closest to breaking deadlock as Tics secure Impish point

Shaun Maloney's men shaded the play over the 90 minutes without really having that cutting edge in the final third.

And the home side almost pinched it in stoppage-time, when Jack Boylan broke into the Latics box before being thwarted by a super block from Will Aimson.

Boosted by their 4-0 victory at Bristol Rovers last week, an unchanged Latics side took the game to Lincoln from the off.

A lovely ball in from Aasgaard found Joe Hugill, who couldn't get his shot on target.

Luke Chambers then got into a good position down the left, and his cross was just behind Hugill, with Dion Rankine drilling the ball back across goal before it was cleared.

With five minutes to go to the break, brilliant work from Rankine saw him glide past three defenders, only for his shot to be blocked.

Sam Tickle had to wait until the start of the second half before having his first meaningful touch, pushing away an Adam Jackson's header which didn't look like it was on target anyway.

Callum McManaman and Dale Taylor took over from Rankine and Hugill, before a crazy 60 seconds saw the deadlock almost broken at either end.

First, James Carragher's cross was headed against the woodwork by Aasgaard.

The ball went straight up the other end, and Tickle had to claw away a dangerous cross with Lincoln attackers waiting in the middle.

Scott Smith, Calvin Ramsay and Baba Adeeko - for Aasgaard, Carragher and Jensen Weir - added fresh legs in the final quarter.

But it was the Imps who almost grabbed a last-gasp winner, with Latics indebted to Aimson for denying Moylan at full stretch.