TORQUAY UTD 1 MACCLESFIELD 1

MACCLESFIELD assistant manager Steve Watson admitted it wasn’t the end of the world for play-off chasing Silkmen to come away from Torquay with a point.

Kingsley James gave Macclesfield the lead in the first half, but a second half header from Sean McGinty secured a point for the Gulls, which edges them away from the bottom four.

“I’m disappointed to concede the way we did but on reflection it isn’t an easy place to come to and they (Torquay) are a decent side so it’s not the end of the world,” said Watson. “I thought it took us a little while to get going, it was scrappy for the first 30 minutes and then we started to create something and then we got the goal. “We created a lot of chances but we just didn’t have that finishing touch we needed.” Torquay manager Kevin Nicholson also expressed a similar level of satisfaction at securing a point.

“I thought that a draw was the least that we deserved,” he said.

“In the first half we battled really hard and they did all the stuff that I asked them to do. In the second half we scored a goal early and after that we were the aggressors, we were on the front foot and we were going for it.”

Connor Jennings went close to giving Macclesfield a deserved early lead until James duly obliged on 36 minutes when he slotted home after the Gulls failed to clear a corner from the left from veteran midfielder Danny Whitaker. The Gulls came close to equalising on 51 minutes when Scott Flinders palmed a strike from Young from the edge of the penalty area behind for a corner. And from the resulting set-piece from Dan Sparkes, McGinty rose highest to hand the Gulls a deserved point.