FC HALIFAX Town manager Chris Millington felt the Shaymen’s 1-1 draw with York City on Saturday was a ‘fair result’ after Paddy McLaughlin’s stoppage-time equaliser.

After Florent Hoti’s wonder strike in the 49th minute, York managed to clinch something from the game in stoppage-time, with McLaughlin poking home from close-range after Scott Burgess’ pass.

Millington felt that fitness and the extra pressure of a local derby got the better of his side, and was disappointed with how Halifax responded to taking the lead.

"It was probably a fair result on the balance of play," Millington told the Halifax Courier.

"We shaded certain aspects of the game, we had more chances, we had more shots.

"All in all, it felt like a local derby, certainly as the game wore on, it became a bit fraught and a bit frenetic and a bit direct.

"Neither team really controlled it for any real length of time, so all in all, we've got to be happy with a point.

"A point away from home is always a positive, especially in a local derby, because they can go either way.

"I think the disappointment for us is more around our failure to control the game once we went 1-0 up.

"We were quite comfortable in the game up until that point, and even after that we've created a couple of real clear-cut chances that we failed to work the keeper.

"Flo Hoti scored an absolute worldie to put us 1-0 up but then misses a much easier chance a few minutes later.

"Milli Ali's worked incredibly hard today and not had much opportunity and then the opportunity he gets, largely created for himself, he puts it way over the bar.

"These are the differences between the teams who are going to be in the top three or four places and the rest.

"If we want to be really punching at the top end of the division we've got to take those chances.

"If we take them, we win the game two or three nil quite comfortably and I think York probably struggle to muster a response, but we failed in that and as a result, we gave them an opportunity."

Millington was disappointed to concede so late on to McLaughlin’s equaliser, but wasn’t going to dwell on the result.

"Anybody who knows the league knows you can be vulnerable to that late on.

"Were this game on Tuesday instead of today, I think we would have won it because we'd have had that little bit of extra energy in the legs and we'd have been able to go that little bit harder in the key moments.

"But the lads have given everything in the last few weeks and it may be a bit greedy of me to expect them to go on and see off a team who are fighting for their lives at the moment and trying to build a run for themselves."