CITY’S win at Northampton could turn out to be a pivotal moment in the season.

That’s the belief of boss Stuart McCall as his side look to follow it up by beating lowly Chesterfield at Valley Parade tomorrow.

The come-from-behind success on Monday ended a run of five league games without a win – the last four all draws.

McCall said: “If we’d come in with a draw, I’d have been lower than I was after the Bury game.

“To not have won that game would have been difficult to take. It was a big result in the scheme of things and it got us back on the winning track.”

Not that McCall has completely dismissed the impact of still picking up points in a frustrating December.

A chat with Scunthorpe boss Graham Alexander after the Boxing Day stalemate reminded him each draw could prove valuable.

“Scunthorpe missed out on getting in the play-offs last year on goal difference to Barnsley – and look where they are.

“As much as we don’t want these (single) points, who knows at the end of the season we might look back and say ‘that point with Bury got us in the play-offs’ or whatever.

“We also know we’ve got a good enough group that we have been dominating big parts of games. But when we’ve needed to be clinical, we know we haven’t been.”

Chesterfield are expected to pack men behind the ball – just as Northampton did in that one-sided second half. McCall, who watched Danny Wilson’s men lose at Port Vale last Friday, is confident City can find a way through.

He said: “Chesterfield are fighting for their lives and have a good experienced management team in Danny and Chris Morgan, who’ll be doing everything they can to get them out of where they are at the moment.

“It could be a frustrating afternoon. But Monday could have been frustrating when Northampton sat in.

“We’ve got belief we have individual players who can unlock a defence and create. We’ve just got to take those chances.”