Agree with Ian's comments above. A very frustrating first sixty minutes where Guiseley sat camped in their own half and time-wasted, as Cox's teams always do. However, once we scored the first goal and they were forced out of their defensive shape the dam broke and we played some great stuff in the last twenty minutes. I think even last season we would have scraped a one-nil against a team as negative as them and, as Ian says, it is a measure of the form we are in that we destroyed them in the end.
I thought in the first thirty minutes some of our possession football was really good but with not much end product, both due to a poor final ball and a failure to attack some decent deliveries into the box from Clarke. I thought Cole was tidy and played well, but we did miss the genuine width DMH gives us on that side as Larnell tended to drift inside when he had the ball. I wonder if that lack of width could cost us against better teams. As the half progressed we gradually got bogged down and the second period began in a similar fashion. After missing his customary one-on-one it was a moment of brilliance from Norwood from outside the box that calmed everyone's nerves.
Individually, I thought Banks was excellent again and Jennings is now in probably his best form since he signed. However, my man of the match would be Eddie Clarke, who was a constant threat on the left wing and was our only real attacking outlet in the periods where we became too pedestrian.
We are still eight points behind Macclesfield but we have reeled in all the other top teams, and I don't think Macc can maintain their current pace until the end of April.
