Linnets look to carry cup momentum into Darlington game

King’s Lynn Town boss Adam Lakeland hopes his side can carry the momentum of their FA Cup win into Saturday’s home game against Darlington in the National League North.Lynn will be keen to regain the winning thread at the Walks but will have it tough against a side that had kept six consecutive clean sheets before their weekend cup exit.”Maybe that extra time and the late penalty win can just give us a little bit of momentum going into that game,” Lakeland said after the 4-3 spot-kick success against the Tigers.”We’ve got a lot of tired lads and they need to just rest and recover but we’ll be ready to go to try to get the three points that’s the aim, as it always is.”Lakeland, who revealed that defender Greg Taylor has been playing with a knock, hopes to have at least one of his three injured players back in contention to play after midfielder Josh Hmami missed the midweek replay with a slight niggle.”I think Josh will certainly have a good chance. He’s just got a little niggle at the top of his thigh, it’s nothing major, but I think playing tonight with a quick turnaround on a heavy pitch then it would have been.”Macca’s had the all-clear that all of his ligaments are intact and there’s no major damage, which is massive for us, but he’s still got a little twinge in there, probably from where he’s just overextended. “Just for that reason it’s a case of giving him a full week to rest.” The Quakers were beaten 2-1 at home by Gainsborough Trinity in the FA Cup last week, but Lakeland knows they will be a completely different proposition to the team who Lynn faced last term.”I think they’re much improved from what they were in that game,” he said.”I think if memory serves right it was Steve Watson’s first game and within a short space of time he got them really organised. “It looked like it was going to be nil-nil, which probably wouldn’t have been a terrible result for us, but losing was a terrible result for us at the time.”I think it was the 92nd or 93rd minute and they snatched it. I felt we were probably the better team in the second half in that game. “We are a completely new and different team to what we were then and it’s the same for both clubs.”Both clubs started poorly and were at the bottom of the league and now both clubs have started better and now rather than looking up at 22 23 teams, we’re looking up at maybe seven or eight. “It’s going to be a tough game and we are well aware of the qualities and the threat they’ve got.”But we’re a good team, we’ve got some good players and we’re hungry to keep on trying to get results.”