YORK City extended their win-less run to a 17th game after relegation rivals Guiseley grabbed their first goal in 11 hours of away football to snatch a 1-1 draw.

A priceless three points slipped away when Jake Cassidy levelled on 85 minutes after teenage sub Callum Rzonca had fired the Minstermen into a spectacular lead with his first senior goal just before the hour mark.

But Rzonca’s clinical finish proved the exception during another match in which the hosts lacked a cutting edge in the final third, despite long spells of possession throughout a nervy night at Bootham Crescent.

City had earlier kicked off the game with a sense of urgency and the fit-again Aidan Connolly saw a fifth-minute, 12-yard effort deflected wide following Jake Charles’ lay-off.

Matt Fry then headed wide of the near post from Connolly’s resulting corner.

A downward header from Connolly also called Guiseley keeper Jonny Maxted into action after good work through the left channel by Alex Whittle.

Connor Brown’s stray back pass went on to play Robbie McDaid in, but Maxted was quick out of his goal to snuff out the danger and an angled Charles drive was kept out at his near post by the visitors’ net-minder moments later.

A 30-yard Whittle drive was safely gathered by Maxted too, before Adam Lockwood’s men threatened for the first time on 26 minutes, but Will Hatfield’s scuffed edge-of-the-box effort rolled harmlessly to City keeper Kyle Letheren.

Letheren was at full stretch, however, just past the half-hour mark to push Jordan Preston’s curling 20-yard shot around his left-hand upright.

After the interval, McDaid wasted a glorious two-on-one situation when, with Connolly running alongside him, he blasted off target from 20 yards and skipper Heslop saved his side from falling behind on 52 minutes when he headed off the line after Rob Atkinson had climbed highest to meet Simon Walton’s right-wing corner.

Gary Mills responded by hailing Rzonca and Scott Fenwick from the bench and the former broke the deadlock in terrific fashion with one of his first touches.

The ball fell to the youth-team graduate just inside the Guiseley penalty box and he fired a 59th-minute, first-time shot firmly into the helpless Maxted’s top-left corner.

Fellow sub Fenwick was not as clinical shortly afterwards when he directed a diving header well wide, while former City striker Michael Rankine rose tall at the other end, after being summoned from the away dugout, but failed to extend Letheren. But home hearts were broken after Fenwick conceded a free kick just inside his own half.

Walton went on to flight a long ball into the City box and, when it broke to Cassidy, he calmly beat Letheren from eight yards.

The home side’s only opportunity to regain the lead fell to Fry in the fifth minute of stoppage time, but his 15-yard effort, following a right-wing Connolly free kick was deflected over.

City

Kyle Letheren: 7

Shaun Rooney: 7

Yan Klukowski: 7

Matt Fry: 7

Simon Heslop: 6

Danny Holmes: 5

Aidan Connolly: 6

Sean Newton: 6

Alex Whittle: 6

Jake Charles: 5

Robbie McDaid: 5

Substitutes: Callum Rzonca 7 (for Charles, 53), Scott Fenwick 4 (for McDaid, 53), Matty Dixon (for Rzonca, 90+3).

Subs not used: Luke Simpson, Luke Woodland.

Star man: Rooney – competed well at the back

Guiseley

Jonny Maxted, Connor Brown, Ashley Palmer, Rob Atkinson, Danny Lowe, Will Hatfield (Mi-chael Rankine, 67), Alex Purver, Simon Walton, Danny East (Joel Logan, 67), Jordan Pres-ton (Adam Boyes, 80), Jake Cassidy.

Subs not used: Dan Atkinson, Marcus Williams.

Referee: Anthony Backhouse rating: 6/10

Booked: McDaid 45, Fenwick 63, Lowe 76

Attendance: 1,907 (159 from Guiseley)

Shots on target: City 5, Guiseley 4

Shots off target: City 5, Guiseley 0

Corners: City 6, Guiseley 9

Fouls conceded: City 16, Guiseley 11

Offside: City 3, Guiseley 1