YORK CITY manager David Webb has praised midfielder Olly Dyson, after the 23-year-old made his return from an illness and netted a goal against Chelmsford City.

Dyson played an integral part in York’s advancement to the last 16 of the Isuzu FA Trophy, after a scoring in normal time to give City the lead and netting the final penalty to confirm the victory. 

The result originally ended 1-1 after Dyson’s goal was cancelled out just eight minutes later, but a perfect penalty record with every taker scoring was enough for Webb’s side to progress in the trophy.

“I thought Olly did well today.” Admitted Webb.

“He was a good energy in midfield, he took his goal well and obviously with the last penalty he stepped up, put it away and sent us through. 

“We knew our penalties and who they would be because we do a lot of set pieces and free-kicks in training. We knew how good our dead ball specialists were, we knew who our penalty takers were going to be before the game if we had to get to that. We didn’t want to put too much pressure on any of them as well. 

Dyson’s 28th minute strike was cancelled out by a fantastic long-ranged effort from Chelmsford’s Eduino Vaz, but the goal did have a hint of luck with the defender looking as if he was attempting a cross.

“The lad will say he meant it.” Laughed Webb. 

“Obviously from our point of view it’s a lucky goal, it is a lucky goal.

“Ducky (Michael Duckworth) will go away and look at his own performance and will probably have felt he could’ve got tighter. But he meant it as a cross, there’s no way that was a shot. 

“But they got their lucky goal and then it was down to us, and I felt in the second half we had three or four chances to put them out of sight, we didn’t take them and we went to penalties. 

“I’m not a big fan of penalties to be fair, they give me a heart attack, I couldn’t watch half of them! But we went through and that’s the main thing. 

Ollie Tanner was handed his debut off of the bench, but only had a couple of minutes to make an impact after replacing Manny Duku in the 88th minute and not being selected to take a penalty.

“We were wanting him to go on and to win the game to be fair. 

“We felt that with Manny up front he could stretch the line a little bit and he was a threat in the air so he missed that chance in the end, but that was unlucky for him. 

“It was kind of a game where Ollie is more of a natural wide player as well, so we had to change the system a little bit, so we did want to get Ollie involved. 

“Unfortunately for him it wasn’t as soon as we would’ve liked, purely because we felt we could’ve won the game with the players on the pitch. 

“Alex (Hurst) gave us a lot of energy on that right hand side, so we changed it to a three at the back and then four in midfield. So he was kind of a wing back but still gave the emphasis on tracking back, because we felt he could match them face to face and offer a threat on the attack as well. 

City have been drawn away from home for the FA Trophy fifth round after defeating Chelmsford, and will face the Clarets' local rivals Southend United.

Southend currently sit in sixth position in the Vanarama National League, occupying the play-offs and currently stand as the second-highest ranked club remaining in the FA Trophy. 

And to make matters even more difficult for York, it'll be their second trip to seaside in the space of seven days, with the Minstermen facing Southend in league action at Roots Hall one week prior.

Webb will be disappointed with the draw after his comments in Saturday's victory over Chelsmford.

“As long as we’re at home, I think a nice home draw would be good." Webb said, and would later find out he had not been granted his wish. 

"As long as we can get a home draw, if there’s a team in our league then we’ve got to face them so I think preferably if we got a choice we would like to stay here.”