Lindsey hopes York FA Cup win will galvanise the club

York progressed to the next round of the FA Cup with a 4-0 thrashing of fellow League Two side Northampton Town, with a brace from Ollie Pearce being added to through goals from Alex Hunt and Josh Stones.

It’s only the second time since the 2010/11 season that City have advanced to the second round of the FA Cup, meaning they are potentially one win away from drawing a Premier League side.

Lindsey hopes that after back-to-back league defeats, an FA Cup win will help bring the club together for the coming weeks.

He wants a potential cup run to ‘enhance’ the Minstermen’s season, with York’s second round opponents being drawn at 6.45pm this evening.

‘We feel as a football club, as the staff and the players, we think it will enhance our season by having a good cup run,’ Lindsey said.

‘It galvanises what we’re trying to do in the league and having a good cup run can only be a good thing for the city, for the supporters, for everybody connected.

‘It’s what we want, we want to get through the next one then hopefully get a really big one so we can enjoy a day out.

‘It would enhance our league form by playing well and winning games [in the cup] like that.

‘It can only be a good thing.’

Pearce’s double in the first round win over Northampton also meant City wrote their name in the FA Cup record books.

Pearce’s opening goal, which came within the first 10 seconds, was the third quickest in FA Cup history and the quickest ever first round goal.

After scoring his second after 10 minutes, Pearce went in search of an FA Cup hat-trick.

He had his chances, but had to settle for the brace after being substituted for Jovan Malcolm in the second half.

Lindsey told The Press: ‘When you’ve got Ollie Pearce on two goals, you never really want to bring him off but the game was won at that point.

‘I think it was the right thing to do and it keeps him fresh for next week.

‘Some of these players, Jovan, Frankie [Maguire], they need to get on the pitch and they need to play some minutes.

‘The fact we were comfortable at that moment in the game, without being disrespectful to Northampton, we felt like we wanted to make those changes.

‘That’s what we did and the scoreline helped us do that sooner than we maybe would have done.’

An earlier change for York saw Mark Kitching brought off at half time.

He was replaced by Zech Medley, with it being a precautionary swap from Lindsey.

‘He had a bit of a sore back,’ he revealed, ‘I don’t know loads of detail about it, I’ll probably know more when I go back in.

‘He had a bit of a sore back, so it was probably beneficial for him to come off of the pitch.

‘We had Zech Medley that was itching and raring to go, so it wasn’t a problem for us to make that change.

‘Zech did well when he came on.

‘We had that change at half-time, then we made three together.’