MACCLESFIELD are targeting an upturn in form at Wembley after ending their National League campaign by taking just two points from a possible 15.

The Silkmen’s slump saw them finish ninth - a distant 14 points adrift of the play-off positions - a gap that was just four fewer than that separating them from their relegated FA Trophy final opponents York City.

Top scorer Chris Holroyd also ended the season with a whimper, netting just once in his last 16 outings and the 30-year-old, ex-Cambridge United marksmen has not found the net in any of his six appearances during the Trophy run.

On-loan Grimsby winger Rhys Browne came top of Macc’s score charts on the Road to Wembley, notching three times with both goals in the 2-0 quarter-final replay victory over Dulwich Hamlet, following his first in the 3-1 second round success at Sudbury.

Behind him, midfield pair Luke Summerfield and Ollie Norburn have both hit the target twice.

Former City midfielder Summerfield bagged a spectacular brace during a 2-2 draw at Dulwich, while Norburn was on the scoresheet in both legs of the 2-1 aggregate semi-final triumph over Tranmere.

Part-time neighbours Altrincham proved Macclesfield’s trickiest adversaries in the tournament’s first round.

Alty led in both the initial meeting that ended 1-1 and in the replay that saw the hosts eventually prevail 2-1 at Moss Rose.

Play-off winners Forest Green, meanwhile, were also seen off 1-0 in the last 16.

Manager John Askey has regularly shuffled his pack in the Trophy, as he has done in the league, with 27 players and nine different goal scorers used during the club’s eight contests.

Former Southport left-back David Fitzpatrick is the only player to have played every minute.

Fellow defender Neill Byrne has also started each match, but been substituted in two, while midfielder Kingsley James has featured in all eight, including one cameo from the bench.

Veteran ex-Luton centre-back George Pilkington, meanwhile, made the most starts in Macc’s National League campaign, kicking off 41 of the 46 games despite turning 35.

Bootham Crescent old boy John McCombe, therefore, looks likely to be on the bench under the famous arch.

Despite featuring in 42 games during the season and netting twice, McCombe has only managed three games, including one as a substitute, in the Trophy.

His ex-Minstermen team-mates Summerfield and Scott Flinders appear to have a greater chance of featuring in the first XI.

Summerfield has played 22 times since his February arrival on loan from Grimsby, while Flinders made 28 appearances in 2016/17, either side of a brief return to North Yorkshire.

His rival for the gloves Craig Ross replaced Flinders for three games last month after the 4-1 home defeat against Dagenham, before the latter returned for the final three matches of the league programme, keeping a clean sheet in a 0-0 draw with Sutton on the final day.

Macc’s appearance at Wembley will be the first since the national stadium was redeveloped.

They played under the old Twin Towers three times, beating Telford 2-0 in the inaugural Trophy final in front of 28,000 fans in 1970.

Telford gained revenge 19 years later with a 1-0 triumph, while Macc overcame Northwich 3-1 when they last trod the hallowed turf in 1996.

Manager Askey is a Macclesfield legend, having enjoyed a 19-year playing career with the club from 1984 to 2003.

He was the obvious winner of the club’s all-time fans’ favourite and cult hero awards and his second spell as manager has seen him at the helm for more than four years.

Team (probable): Flinders, Halls, Pilkington, Byrne, Fitzpatrick, Summerfield, James, Whitaker, Browne, Holroyd, Norburn.