Fortune favours Minstermen as Fry grabs York's first victory of the season

YORK City secured their first National League victory of the season following a 1-0 home triumph against Macclesfield.
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Matt Fry’s lucky second-half goal proved the difference on an evenly-contested night at Bootham Crescent.

York had earlier seen a sixth-minute chance cleared off the line by George Pilkington after Jack Higgins’s header from a Yan Klukowski corner.

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Pilkington also survived strong shouts for handball from the home team.

At the other end, Danny Rowe looked the most likely marksman for Macclesfield during the first period.

He fired wide twice from long range and also saw a rising 15-yard effort clawed away by York keeper Scott Flinders.

Rowe threatened again after the interval and called Flinders into action before the Minstermen forged ahead in the strangest of circumstances.

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Former York defender John McCombe was booked for a lunge on Aidan Connolly and the Scottish winger then swung in a free kick from the right that saw Mitch Hancox’s clearance ricochet off Fry and fly in.

McCombe went on to waste an excellent chance to equalise, prodding wide with the outside of his boot after being played clear through the left channel by Kingsley James.

A near-post Flinders save from right-winger Jack Mackreth then safeguarded the points for York.