 Green finished the season as Lincoln's top scorer, with 17 goals from 56 appearances in all competitions, as his team reached the play-offs, in which they lost to Exeter City on aggregate despite Green's lively performance in the first leg and goal in the second.He contributed three goals to their run to the 2018 EFL Trophy Final, and played almost the whole of the matchhe was substituted deep into stoppage timeas Lincoln beat League One club Shrewsbury Town 1–0.After the club made John Akindea similar style of playertheir record signing in the close season, Green found himself out of the starting eleven.