YORK City right-back Kallum Griffiths has hailed Saturday’s 2-1 win at Kidderminster Harriers as the team’s “biggest achievement” of the season.

Prior to victory at the 10th-placed Aggborough outfit, the Minstermen had taken just one point from their previous eight away National League North meetings against clubs currently in the top half of the table - that coming in August’s 0-0 draw with Brackley.

Griffiths, therefore, believes the result represents the pinnacle of City’s underwhelming 2018/19 campaign so far, especially considering the manner in which Scott Burgess grabbed the winner just eight minutes after Joe Ironside had cancelled out the full-back’s first-half opener.

Offering his assessment of the contest, Griffiths said: “I think it was our biggest achievement so far because, when a team scores against us, we normally fold and go within ourselves before conceding a second and sometimes a third, but we didn’t this time.

"We went back on the attack and got the winner when Burgs flicked the ball over their player’s head and put it in the top corner for an unbelievable goal. I thought the lads were brilliant from start to finish.

“We dug in deep and put our bodies on the line. Kidderminster had a fair bit of possession in the second half, but I think our fitness showed in the end and I can’t really remember them having a shot in open play, other than one that Barts (Adam Bartlett) saved from 30 yards out.

“We kept them going out wide and then, when any crosses came in, Mirf (David Mirfin) and Newts (Sean Newton) won every header.”

On Saturday, City host a bottom-of-the-table Nuneaton side that have taken just two points from a possible 30 and just one victory in 21 matches, but Griffiths insists the Minstermen must not underestimate a team they trailed twice against in September before leaving Warwickshire with a share of the spoils.

“We weren’t really up to the task when we played there and were lucky to get a late equaliser to draw. But, now, we’ve got to go into the game as if we are playing the top of the league,” Griffiths reasoned. “We can’t drop off.

“We’ve had two wins on the trot for the first time in a long time, but there’s no point in winning two if you can’t make that three, four or five, and you can’t go to Kidderminster and take three points and then get beaten by Nuneaton at home.”

After a run of eight goals shipped in three games, Griffiths has been part of a City back four that has only conceded once in the last two fixtures.

He has lined up alongside right-footed centre-back David Mirfin in both of those matches and Griffiths has been highly impressed with the on-loan Mansfield defender.

“Everything about him has been unbelievable,” Griffiths enthused. “He’s a great talker and brilliant in the air and in one-on-one situations.

“He put in an unbelievable block on a Joe Ironside shot from eight yards out on Saturday that I’m sure would have been a goal otherwise and, with his organisational skills, you can see he’s been a very good player and still is.”

Griffiths opened his City account in his 28th game for the club at Aggborough in spectacular style and he is hoping he can repeat the trademark strike by continuing to make his presence felt in the final third of the pitch.

“I only score good goals, although nobody had seen that at York before Saturday,” he smiled. “As soon as the pitch opened up, I just concentrated on getting a good connection with my left foot and, luckily, it flew into the top corner.

“The main point of being a full-back is defending, but I like to get up and down and get some assists and goals and I could have got another (on Saturday) with an easier chance. I probably got a bit of a nosebleed but I do have a good partnership with Wes (York).

“He likes to drift inside sometimes, which means I can go up and play almost like a wing-back, but it’s just nice to play in my favourite position and get a good run of games.”

Despite City moving to within seven points of the play-off positions, the Sunderland-born 29-year-old argued now is not the time to state any top-seven aspirations, but that could be reassessed after the next four fixtures – against Nuneaton, Leamington, Altrincham and FC United of Manchester.

“We’ve got to keep this feelgood factor going and see what we can do, but we can’t look too far forward at the moment,” Griffiths stressed. “We’ve just got to prepare to win every game and then see where we are with six or seven games to go.”