ADAM HINSHELWOOD admitted that he feels as if his York City side are lacking ‘killer instinct’ after their 1-1 draw with Woking.

York travelled down to Surrey for a 5.30pm kick-off at the Laithwaite Community Stadium, with Woking welcoming the DAZN cameras for enhanced production.

A contested first-half ended with City feeling frustrated to not be in front, as Ollie Pearce was denied by Ben Wynter at close-range, whilst Ricky Aguiar was thwarted by Will Jaaskelainen in a one-on-one.

Woking took advantage of the Minstermen’s missed opportunities in the first-half, as Dan Moss powered home a superb cross to the back post, putting Michael Doyle’s side in front.

York were handed a lifeline with just ten minutes remaining as a Woking man was adjudged to have handled the ball in their area, with the referee pointing to the spot.

Lenell John-Lewis stepped up and coolly converted from the slot, securing a point on the road.

Hinshelwood was frustrated again as City battled to a third draw from their last four, dropping to third in the Vanarama National League table as a result, and admitted that his side have to start taking their chances if they want to considered title contenders.

“It’s frustration, you can’t go away from home, play as well as that and create as much as we have and be happy with a point,” Hinshelwood vented to BBC York.

“That’s the difference between us wanting to challenge for league titles and just improving on last season.

“When you play as well as we have today, you have got to come away with three points.

“That’s now three draws from our last four games, and I like to be quite honest, I think that we have been the better team in those three games.

“The difference is that we just can’t quite find that killer instinct at the moment.

“The last couple of games, Eastleigh came to our place and put players behind the ball.

“I think that we got the ball into unbelievable areas to score goals today, but ultimately it doesn’t mean nothing if we’re just picking up a point every game.

“That’s probably the difference, it’s all very well talking about our performances but if they are not winning games of football then it is pointless.

“All we can do is keep working hard on the training field, Len [John-Lewis] has had a good header, Ty [Sinclair] has had a good header from a set-piece, Cal Howe’s had a good header, Ricky [Aguiar] should be scoring that goal in the first-half.

“When you come away from home and create as much as we have, it is disappointing.

“It’s been like that now for the last few games, we’ve got to find a way to turn these draws into wins.”

Hinshelwood discussed the lead up to Woking’s opener from Moss, and took the time to credit the Cards for the quality of their goal.

The boss told BBC York: “It was an unbelievable ball into the box.

“We get into that position and Ty has a ball that goes out of play, we might as well just kick it out for a corner in that position.

“I don’t know how many deliveries they had into the box, but when they did, it was quality and that’s the difference.

“That’s what we’ve got to demand from ourselves, with balls going in with a bit more quality for us to take it.

“We’ll give credit to them, they took their goal well.”

The Minstermen drew level through John-Lewis, with Hinshelwood in agreement with the referee that a penalty was the correct decision.

However, Hinshelwood expressed his disparagement at the referee’s performance overall, labelling the decision-making as ‘indecisive’.

Hinshelwood slated: “A bit of luck maybe, we were going for the win and put them under a bit of pressure and got the penalty in the end.

“The lad has got his hands above his head, so I don’t think that they can have any complaints about that one.

“I thought that the ref didn’t really get out of a jog.

“He just moped about in the middle of the pitch, just strolled about in the middle of the pitch and was a bit indecisive with decisions in my opinion.

“We can’t control that and we’ve got to focus on what we can control, that’s being more clinical in front of goal.”