York City manager Terry Dolan remains undaunted ahead of tomorrow's FA Cup second round replay at Reading's formidable Madejski Stadium despite the Minstermen suffering another bout of travel sickness.

City's horrible run of results away from Bootham Crescent - they have won just once all season - continued with a 1-0 defeat at Plymouth Argyle's Home Park on Saturday.

Despite the reverse, Dolan was bemused rather than angry after seeing his side play well enough to claim at least a point and very probably all three.

"There is not a lot you can say about the game, except I have never seen us create as many chances and yet not put one of them away," he lamented.

"That is the reason we have lost the game, it is as simple as that.

"If we create as many chances (at Reading) I will be absolutely delighted and I can assure you we can't go through another game like that without putting one away."

After seeing City find the net relatively regularly in recent outings Dolan admitted Saturday's finishing left a lot to be desired.

"We missed the target on too many occasions and that was the biggest downfall," he said.

"We knew it wasn't going to be a flowing game of football and it was a case of getting the ball forward as early as possible and hope that they would make mistakes.

"We got the ball forward but when they did make mistakes we didn't capitalise and punish them. We weren't ruthless enough."

Plymouth's match-winning goal came from a Craig Taylor free-kick after just three minutes but, as Dolan explained, the Pigrims were grateful for a fortunate bobble.

david.stanford@ycp.co.uk