Fair play to Torquay they dominated from the start winning an early free kick that was curled over the bar. Then on six minutes Nathan Blissett (nephew of the great Luther) got on the end of a Dan Sparkes cross to head The Gulls in front. From this point on-wards Torquay were the better team and York were second best to everything. Richard Brodie had a superb effort come back off the bar, the rebound was turned in but the flag had already been raised. This provided much to embarrassment to the York fan that ran to the end of the terrace to celebrate at the home fans, which he was wildly ridiculed for.
Just before the half hour mark Blissett struck again with a superb volley on the turn after York failed to clear a cross and the following header back into the area. They never really recovered from this and were under the kosh for most of the game.
Aidan Connolly showed some bright moments before being replaced at half time for Kane Felix. The 21 year old winger showed great promise and caused problems every time he burst down the wing but nobody was attacking the crosses. York struggled in defence today seemingly failing to win any headers from the long balls pumped forward by Torquay and their strike force looked like they had used all their ideas in the 4-0 win over Solihull last saturday.
City currently sit in 16th after 9 games, which is not good enough for a team of York's size. Despite having scoring 4 twice already this season they lack consistency and against a team of any quality they struggle and seem to lose their focus. There is a long way to go but Jackie McNamara needs to get his men sorted if they want an instant return to the football league.
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