Portsmouth 6 York City 0: Ten-man York suffer as McNulty hits triple

Jonathan Greening’s 45th-minute red card for clattering into Michael Doyle proved the turning point as Pompey ran riot after the break when Ben Davies, Conor Chaplin and Ben Tollitt joined McNulty on the scoresheet.

It was an awful collapse by the Minstermen, who have now lost seven successive games.

McNulty and on-loan Sheffield Wednesday striker Conor Lavery had earlier tested Scott Flinders with first-half attempts but the hosts made their extra man count fully after the break.

A curling right-wing cross by Davies on 49 minutes deceived everybody in the visitors’ box, including Flinders, to open the scoring.

McNulty then pounced from four yards to divert a wayward Lavery effort past Flinders from four yards on 52 minutes.

McNulty fired in from 12 yards after exchanging passes with ex-Doncaster winger Kyle Bennett and he made it 4-0 on 71 minutes when he burst through the left channel and finished confidently.

Substitutes Tollitt and Chaplin then got in on the act. Tollitt converted an Enda Stevens left-wing cross and Chaplin slid in to complete the rout after Flinders failed to hold on to Lavery’s rising drive.

Portsmouth: Murphy; Davies (Barton, 73), Webster, Burgess, Stevens; Doyle, Hollands; Evans, McNulty (Chaplin, 73), Bennett (Tollitt, 76); Lavery. Unused substitutes: Bass, Boco, McGurk, Clarke.

York: Flinders; Nolan, Swan, Boyle, Ilesanmi; Greening, Berrett, Morris; Sinclair (Godfrey, 57), Oliver (Hyde, 75), Straker. Unused substitutes: Ingham, Hare, Turner, Godfrey, Tutonda.

Referee: I Williamson.