SOLIHULL Moors are aiming to avoid another club record against York City following their 9-0 trouncing at Tranmere last weekend.

The Midlands club, who were formed ten years ago following a merger between Solihull Borough and Moor Green, have only gone four games without a goal once in their history – back in March 2011.

But that barren run will be equalled should Liam McDonald’s men fail to net against City with home defeats against Aldershot (0-2) and Torquay (0-1) preceding their walloping in the Wirral.

Solihull have also now suffered five straight defeats and another loss would represent their worst run since September 2011.

At home, meanwhile, the Moors have taken just one point from a possible 15 at a Damson Park arena with a capacity of 3,050.

Solihull’s fortunes were not helped when 12-goal top scorer Akwasi Asante and highly-rated midfielder Jamie Osborne followed former boss Marcus Bignot to League Two Grimsby in January.

Bignot lost his job at Blundell Park this week and the pressure is also on the 32-year-old McDonald who, having taken on his first managerial position five years ago, transformed Redditch and Hednesford Town into Evo-Stik Southern Premier League and Northern League promotion challengers respectively before taking charge at Solihull in mid-November.

With Asante gone, ex-Cheltenham attacker Omari Sterling-James is the leading marksman on the club’s books with eight goals.

But he has only netted once in his last 15 matches and made way early in the second half for seven-goal striker Andy Brown at Prenton Park with the latter now in contention for a first XI place, having struggled with injury this term.

Otherwise, Solihull’s potential to make wholesale changes is limited.

Captain Ryan Beswick has been out since October with a groin problem and on-loan Charlton midfielder Regan Charles-Cook will serve the final match of his three-match suspension.

Calum Flanagan also remains sidelined and Shep Murombedzi is another recent absentee.

Centre-back Liam Daly, who has donned the armband in Beswick’s absence, could return, though, to stiffen the shell-shocked back line of last season’s National League North champions.

Team (probable): Lewis, Franklin, Daly, Sammons, Green, Maye, Afolayan, Nortey, Sterling-James, Carling, Brown.