STUART Maynard was frustrated that York City failed to come away from their 1-0 defeat to Solihull Moors with a ‘point minimum’ after a late blow sunk the Minstermen.
Having dominated play until stoppage-time, Maynard’s side looked as if they may have to settle for a point against Solihull, who had been largely pinned inside their own final third for over 90 minutes.
It didn’t transpire that way, with a well-worked counter-attack from the visiting Moors seeing Jacob Wakeling drive through one-on-one with Harrison Male, before the striker slotted past the York goalkeeper.
Maynard had made his frustrations clear after the match, and shared that disappointment with his players in the dressing room, who were all feeling glum that they had suffered a first defeat of the season.
“Disappointed, we’re all disappointed,” Maynard said on the dressing room atmosphere.
“When you come away from these games, you’re always disappointed. Every game you go into, especially at home, you want to win every game.
“We’ve come away bitterly disappointed from these games and were frustrated, because I’m a big believer on it, you don’t lose these games.
“These are the games where you can come away from frustrated, but in the end we have to come away with a point minimum.
“Every game, we have to come away with a point.
“It should have been 0-0, because if we weren’t going to win it, we looked like the only team that were going to win it.
“It should have been 0-0, we go away, work on it and go again, and it’s another point on the board.
“This is one of those divisions, you have to keep racking up the points on the board.”
Maynard’s team had conceded with six of the seven minutes added on played, leaving his team very little time to try and muster a late leveller.
It never came, with some supporters surprised that only seven minutes were added on due to Solihull’s ability to work down the clock.
Maynard shared their confusion, and demanded that there were changes made by future officiating that did not allow teams to ‘time-waste’.
He explained: “The big thing for me on it, and I’m massive on this, add the time on correctly so we have enough time to play.
“At the end of this game, because of the time-wasting, there should have been 15 minutes.
“If they add 15 minutes onto a game, I think we go and win the game, we’re a bit more patient, we see 15 minutes go up and we know there’s time.
“Seven minutes is nowhere near close enough to it.
“Or, the ref has to manage the game and book people.
“I don’t want to see people getting booked, but you’ve got to manage the game, you can’t just let people from minute one take over 30 seconds on every goal kick, every throw-in, every action.
“You can’t do it.”
Prior to Wakeling’s late winner, York had been heavily chasing the opening goal with Maynard turning to his bench for solutions.
They had provided that needed energy the week prior at Braintree Town, with Joe Grey scoring the equaliser in what would result in a 3-2 win for the Minstermen.
City introduced Josh Stones, Ryan Fallowfield, Dan Batty and Greg Olley during the match, but none were able to create that needed goal for York.
Maynard said on his substitutes: “It’s hard to expect your subs to come on every game and score, create in every action when they come on the pitch.
“I thought that when they came on, we were tiring because we were that dominant with the ball.
“It was hard, Mal [Malachi Fagan-Walcott] came out because he overlapped that much, and if you look at the heat map again he’s probably in the final third more than he is in the defensive third – we were that dominant.
“We needed to just bring some fresh legs on, to come on and bring a bit more energy in the final third.
“Batts [Batty] came on and dictated the game for us, he picked the right passes at the right times, to play through them and to play around.
“He had a couple of unbelievable crosses towards the back post, and we’re just not on the end of things.”
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