Wealdstone head coach Matt Taylor said his side will need to improve on their first-half performances after rallying for a 1-1 draw at Solihull Moors on Saturday.

An own goal drew Taylor’s side level after Solihull marksman James Gale had opened the scoring just before the break.

But the boss admitted the opening periods of the game had not gone the way he might have imagined.

“First half, I felt we never really got any rhythm. We didn’t get to our strength, which is our football,” he told the club website.

“We were too easy to play through, I felt. The goal comes from a mistake that we make, and then from a set play we don’t mark as well as we should.

"As a coach or as a manager, you’ve got to try and solve problems, and we weren’t good enough in the first half.

“I changed the shape in the second half and made some changes. I thought the two boys that came on - Jack (Wells-Morrison) and Callum (McFarlane) - at half-time did really well. We had much more of a foothold in the game.

"If anything, it looked as if there was only one team that was going to go on and win the game. We got at least a point, which is what we deserved. Would I have liked three? Yes, but looking at the group we have, that’s three unbeaten.

“We started to build some momentum, and I didn’t feel at any point we were really under pressure other than when we made errors and probably didn’t make Solihull work hard enough for their opportunities.

"but I’m pleased because at half-time I got a real reaction from the players in the way they’ve approached the second half.”

Wealdstone’s recent results have comprised several defensive performances that have left Taylor gleaming.

But the first-half performance on Saturday forced the manager’s hand into making some difficult decisions at the break.

“We needed to stop the opposition from exploiting gaps in our defence. We’re a front-foot team, and we want to get after the opposition, and I felt today, probably if I look at it, we didn’t get the triggers right when we wanted to press,” Taylor said when asked about the half-time changes.

“When we did press, we left gaps, and those gaps against good teams will get exploited. So what we needed to do was probably get to half-time and change the shape.

"And I just felt we looked so much more comfortable. We looked more dominant on the ball. It got us to our football much quicker, and we probably didn’t want the game to end as we were in the ascendency.

“But, there’ll be a lot of teams that come here and get beat this season, as they (Solihull) have got some excellent players, and they’re a good team.”

Stones host York City on Saturday, then visit Woking on Tuesday (7.45pm).