Momentum key to York City, says Adam Hinshelwood after first win

After a late goal denied York a first win of the season against Sutton United on the opening day, City had the difficult task of leaving Cornwall with three points on Saturday when visiting league newcomers Truro City.

With 83 minutes played, Mark Kitching broke the deadlock against Truro, before substitute Josh Stones wrapped up the three points five minutes later to send 409 travelling supporters home happy.

The final result and the win came as a relief for Hinshelwood, who has been pleased to start the season in an unbeaten fashion prior to Wednesday’s trip to Southend United (7.45pm).

“It does [bring relief], especially after we felt that we let two [points] go here against Sutton at home,” Hinshelwood told the Press.

“I think it’s important that you try and bounce back, and it makes that point look a better one now after getting three away from home.

“It’s a real tricky start that we’ve got and we want to just take it one game at a time.

“We’ll try keep everyone going with clean sheets, try to keep that winning feeling going and I think that if you take our last eight league games from last season and the first two of this one, I think it’s like ten games now without a defeat.

“We’re on a bit of a run, I think there’s eight wins in there as well.

“We want to try and take that momentum that we gained from last year into this season if we can.”

Equally as important to Hinshelwood, the City manager was delighted to have registered a first clean sheet of the season at Truro on Saturday.

No other Enterprise National League team kept more clean sheets than York last campaign [22], with Harrison Male not conceding in 19 matches in the 2024/25 season, the highest tally in the division.

Hinshelwood wants to improve on the 22 league clean sheets from last campaign, taking pride in York’s defensive record.

He continued: “I think that was a massive bonus for us last year, we had a lot of clean sheets – I think it was near enough half of our games were clean sheets last year. 

“It’s something we were really proud of and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it served us well. 

“We got our points total off of the back of keeping those clean sheets, so it’s something we’re really proud of as a group. 

“We want to try and go even better, to try and keep even more clean sheets this season if possible and that’s going to be difficult at Roots Hall, but we’re pleased with that. 

“It’s something for us to build on for sure.”