YORK City manager Gary Mills is “quite hopeful” that top scorer Jason Walker will be fit enough for Saturday’s FA Cup clash at Wrexham.

Walker limped out of the action with a foot injury during the first half of Saturday’s 4-2 win at Hayes & Yeading United but has since responded well to treatment and has a chance of featuring in the fourth qualifying round tie.

City’s 15-goal leading marksman has started every one of the club’s 18 matches since his summer switch from Barrow and could now maintain that ever-present record at the Racecourse Ground.

About his current condition, Mills said: “He’s not too bad. He had treatment yesterday morning and we are quite hopeful that he will be okay for Saturday.

“He felt some pain between his Achilles and his ankle on Saturday but it does not look as if it’s as bad as first thought. We won’t take any risks and never would do because there’s no need to.

“It also helps that there are no midweek games in the next two weeks so, unless there’s a replay, it would give him two weeks to only miss one game should he not be available at Wrexham. We’ll just see how he is on a day-by-day basis.”

While hoping Walker is in Saturday’s starting line-up, Mills also believes the team would have sufficient firepower to win at Wrexham without him.

The Minstermen have had ten different players on the scoresheet this season and Mills added: “Like any team, you want your scorer available but we’ve got other players contributing.

“Ash Chambers has got seven while Paddy McLaughlin has got five from midfield and could have had more. Looking at him, he could get between ten and 15 this season. That works out at about one every three games and would be a very good return for us.

“Getting a goal from Jon Challinor at full-back on Saturday was also excellent. We are scoring from all parts of the team and not just relying on Jason.”

Mills has, meanwhile, moved quickly to rubbish any suggestions from outside the club that City are a one-man team.

He said: “You can never take away what Jason has done for us but he would not have scored a lot of those goals if the chances had not been created by his team-mates. It’s a team thing and he’s one member of that team who’s doing his job very well just like everybody else.

“He scores spectacular goals like the free-kick on Saturday and the overhead kick against Grimsby because things like that come naturally to him, but the vast majority of his goals have been set up for him by others.”

To his disappointment, Mills has been unable to arrange a behind-closed-doors friendly this week for players currently outside of his first XI.

“I’ve not had any joy and am looking to fix something for next week now,” he pointed out.

City’s youth team will be in action tonight (7.30pm), however, when they travel to Valerie Park to play Prescot Cables in the third qualifying round of the FA Youth Cup.

The winners will entertain Macclesfield in the first round proper.