Mark Kennedy discovered that three days is a long time in football after his Lincoln side pulled off a Carabao Cup third-round shock at Ashton Gate.

The Imps head coach had watched his League One team dumped out of the FA Cup by non-league Chippenham at the weekend.

But what a response he got as first-half strikes from Matty Virtue and Ben House set Lincoln on course to create a surprise of their own.

Kennedy said: “We rightly took a lot of criticism on Saturday because it was a poor result for us and there was no glossing over that.

“But we tried to stay focused on what we felt h...