ACCRINGTON Stanley’s Sean Maguire wants to finish the season on a goalscoring high after ending a three-month drought against York City on Saturday.

Maguire had not found the net since Wycombe Wanderers visited the Store First Stadium on December 20, but the West Ham United loanee was relieved to score in the Reds’ 2-2 draw with York at the weekend.

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The 20-year-old now has five goals since joining Stanley in September but is determined to add to that tally in the remaining eight games of the season, as the Reds attempt to improve on 16th in the table.

“I’m very happy that my drought’s over,” Maguire said.

“I hadn’t scored since Christmas time, and hopefully we and I can push on now until the end of the season and finish as high as we possibly can.

“The plan is to keep going now.

“I think there are eight games left and it’d be great to get another four or five goals.

“I’d even take three. It was such a relief when that ball went into the back of the net, and hopefully I can push on now and it’ll happen again.”

Maguire revealed that a conversation with Stanley’s assistant manager Jimmy Bell, a former striker, had helped him end his run without a goal.

“Jimmy Bell spoke to me before the game and told me that any time I got sight of the goal I should take a shot,” he said.

“I didn’t get much of a sight of goal in the first half but the first one I got in the second half I just let fly and luckily enough it went through a few bodies and found the back of the net.

“It came off the defender and came out to me and I chested it and let fly.

“I think the keeper saw it late and fortunately for me it went in.”

Bell said: “I spoke to Sean, I think he dilly-dallies a bit in front of goal and I said, ‘You don’t get that time and space, you’ve got to be one touch in the box, maximum two’.

“He seems to want to score that perfect goal. But he’ll have a little think about himself and where he wants to go and hopefully that will kick-start him until the end of the season to score a few more.”

Maguire’s goal cancelled out Luke Summerfield’s opener for relegation-threatened York and Josh Windass had to equalise again with a late deflected free kick.

“It was always going to be a very tight game and we reacted when they scored really,” Maguire said.

“The first half was scrappy and there wasn’t much in it and then they scored first in the second half.

“We got a bit of a fright and we pushed on a bit and I got my goal.

“They got the second and then Josh (Windass) got a bit of luck from the free kick.

“Considering we came into the game probably as favourites to win we would’ve probably taken a point at the end of the game given that we were behind twice.”