David Artell full of praise for Grimsby after impressive win over York

David Artell praised Grimsby for the way they contained a dangerous York side in the second half of their 5-2 win at Blundell Park.

The Mariners had five different scorers as they struck three times in 12 minutes late in the second period to seal a convincing victory.

Andy Cook put the hosts in front and Iwan Morgan sent them in level at the break after goals from Alex Hunt and Jack Hunt had turned the game in York’s favour.

But Cameron McJannet, Josh Andrews and Geza David Turi all found the net in the second half and York had no response.

“I thought our out-of-possession shape against a very good York team was commendable,” said Artell.

“We’re up against a side that have created the most big chances in the league, but we limited them outside of the goals.

“If you do limit them going forward, then you’ll always have a great opportunity, because they are an in-possession football team – that is where most of their strengths lie.

“They make you work hard against the ball, but then we tweaked something at half-time and then we were outstanding and our in-possession play became more prevalent after that.

“I thought it was a really good advert for League Two because it was a great game of football.”

Artell credited subtle tactical tweaks for Grimsby shutting down York while having continued joy going forward.

He added: “It’s a credit to the players because they understood what we were asking of them.

“We showed them two clips about the point we were making and the subtleties in what it was and compared that to what we asked them to do before the game, which was different.

“It didn’t quite work in the first half, but we got the chance to show them and then they got it straight away, which is really pleasing.”

Defeat meant York’s wait for an away win in their first season back in the EFL went on.

Boss Scott Lindsey said: “We scored goals, but we can’t concede in the fashion we did today. It was nowhere near good enough.

“We’ve just got to get back to the training ground and work on it. It’s as simple as that, you work harder.

“You only get out of football what you’re prepared to put into it and I’m really disappointed with this performance.

“We were poor and that’s on me, because it didn’t look like us for long spells. You get one of these games every now and then at this level, but we can’t be happy with that.”