Grimsby Town 3, Guiseley 0

NATHAN Arnold came off the bench at half-time to send Guiseley spinning out of the FA Cup at the fourth qualifying round stage in front of a crowd of 1,761 at Blundell Park.

The winger made a decisive impact as he broke the deadlock and also claimed assists on the other two goals.

Grimsby play a division higher than Guiseley in the Vanarama Conference Premier and are still a full-time outfit.

Lions striker Adam Boyes had an early sight of goal but Grimsby soon took control and created a host of chances.

Former Bradford City striker Ross Hannah was lively and Lenell John-Lewis was also a constant threat to the visitors' overworked defence.

The home side really should have opened the scoring minutes before the interval when Hannah was fouled by Danny Lowe, earning the Guiseley defender a yellow card. But Grimsby's other former Bantam Scott Neilson's free-kick was superbly saved by the diving Steve Drench.

Guiseley lost Boyes to an ankle injury early in the second half and that blunted what edge they had up front, although they were still defending stoically.

But the hosts finally found a way through around the hour mark and that led to three goals in a 15-minute spell.

Arnold was picked out by a good cross from Jack Mackreth and headed past Drench. Then minutes later an Arnold shot struck a defender and dropped for John-Lewis to head into the unguarded net.

Lions substitute Oli Johnson had a good effort well saved but Town were on top and wrapped up the scoring in the 75th minute, with Arnold again the instigator as he set up John-Lewis for his second.

Guiseley manager Mark Bower said: "It was always going to be a difficult game but I thought in the first half we defended well and were quite solid.

"There were not too many chances for them and we managed to get Boysey a good opening.

"I was very disappointed with the way we distributed the ball, although we worked hard throughout.

"Later on their fitness told and they ran away with it but it was our poor defending in the attacking third that led to us having an awful lot to do at the back.

"Once they fashioned a chance for that first goal, with the quality they have got it was very difficult from that point.

"They are probably the biggest club in the Conference and on a really good run themselves. Once they got in front they opened us up and picked us off and credit to them for that."