YORK City manager Michael Morton admitted that it was a 'shame' that they were unable to mathematically confirm safety against Aldershot Town on Saturday, after a stoppage-time equaliser from Tyler Frost.

Morton's side were forced to settle for a point in the dying stages, but would only suffer relegation from the Vanarama National League if Torquay United were able to pull off an astonishing result against champions Wrexham next Saturday.

“It’s just a shame that we were two minutes away from it actually being confirmed." Morton told BBC Radio York.

"I don’t know what the difference is, we have 14 [better goal difference than Torquay United].

"What I’ve heard about Parky [Phil Parkinson, Wrexham manager] is that he doesn’t like to celebrate it until the end of the season. "Macca [Tony McMahon] has played under him and he’s said that he won’t let him rest off until next week."

Morton was pleased with his sides reaction to Lenell John-Lewis' penalty miss that forced an own goal from Corey Jordan, but was disappointed after conceding from two set-plays.

“I think the next five minutes were massive, I literally turned around and said to Macca and Scott [Barrow] that the next five are massive, we’ve got to keep the pressure on them and we scored just after.

"It was like being at Southend where we miss a penalty and then we have to go again.

"I thought we deserved that second half but the chances just after that it should have been put to bed.

"I don’t know how we’ve missed to be honest, two or three of them.

"But in York City style we like to keep everyone on their toes!

“It’s disappointing because we work all the time on set-plays. I think the biggest disappointment today is that if you look at our stats in terms of how many we defend, the success rate is actually quite high.

"But it would have been really low today, it would probably have been our lowest.

"We know that they had really good deliveries from [Ollie] Harfield and [Ryan] Glover, we know that with the pace they put the ball in.

"We need to have a look back, I think one of the lads has put his hands up for the last one but it’s been the story of the season for whoever has been in charge.

“You can keep training the lads on it or you can keep going through it, but you can’t replicate what actually happens in the game so then it sort of comes down to personnel and you have to start looking at people who maybe can defend set-plays.

"I think when we came in that was a big thing, when you look at how many set-plays you have to defend, the success rate was quite low in terms of what it looked like.

"We’ve actually upped that but the amount of set-plays we’ve had to deal with because of our clearances we’ve gotten better.

"But it must be in their mind somewhere where they’re thinking we must defend that with our lives, but unfortunately we didn’t."