YORK City boss Gary Mills is expecting a “dangerous” Solihull Moors backlash following their National League record-equalling 9-0 defeat.

The Midlands outfit were trounced by Tranmere last weekend by the same margin as Hereford and Rushden respectively routed Dagenham and Weymouth in 2003/04 and 2008/09.

But the Minstermen chief does not anticipate a repeat scoreline as his team travel to Damson Park tomorrow and warned his players: “Big defeats like that happen and have done at the highest level to teams like Crystal Palace and Ipswich and, then, the next game is a dangerous one, because teams want to respond.

“Solihull will feel no different and will want to prove they can bounce back from a defeat like that. I’ve watched the game back and, for 20 or 25 minutes, Solihull were the better team and had the better chances, so it was quite weird seeing what happened.

“Solihull is also a tough place to go. The surroundings aren’t great, so we’ve got to make sure we deal with that situation and, as ever, it will be all about how we perform.”

The Minstermen know that success at Solihull will move them above their hosts and a further place up the table up to seventh bottom, unless Woking better their winning margin by two goals.

Admitting that provided extra motivation, Mills said: “It’s a massive incentive that we can go above Solihull with a win.

“A few weeks ago, we probably weren’t even talking about teams like Solihull and even Guiseley, who went on an unbelievable run, know they will be back in it if they don’t get a result from their next game.”

City are currently ahead of Woking and Braintree on goal difference, while Torquay are just one point behind Mills’ team, meaning all three can profit from any slip-up at Solihull.

Braintree and Woking have home matches with Guiseley and Macclesfield respectively, while Torquay visit league leaders Lincoln.

But Mills will only be concentrating on his own team’s efforts, adding: “I wasn’t aware of the other results at Chester and that will be no different at Solihull, because we’ve just got to get on with our jobs.

“It’s so close down there and we’ve still got a lot of hard work to do with four games to go to stay out of that bottom four.”

Skipper Simon Heslop is hoping to recover from a diarrhoea and sickness bug in time to lead the team out tomorrow.

Yan Klukowski, meanwhile, remains troubled by his niggly calf problem, but Mills is hoping to have him back in contention for the Easter Monday home clash against Wrexham, which Hamza Bencherif will miss due to the terms of his loan move from the Welsh club.

“We thought Yan was over his injury, but he isn’t yet,” Mills revealed. “We will be a body down against Wrexham with Hamza not being able to play, so somebody else will have to step in, which would be either Shaun Rooney or Yan.”