Blue Brazil trail Edinburgh by 12 points after loss to Blue Toon

Cowdenbeath are now 12 points bnehind Edinburgh City in the fight to avoid the Pyramid Play-off despite giving title contenders Peterhead a hard time at Central Park.

City ran out 4-0 winners over Elgin City and now Gary Bollan’s side have to look to go to Stenhousemuir tomorrow and get their first win since August to get back in with a chance of catching City.

Blue Brazil assistant manager Mark Fotheringham said: “I am afraid it was much of what we have seen all season.

“We competed really well and created chances but lost two very poor goals.

“The first was a simple ball into the box but we did not measure up to it and it cost us the opening goal of the game which is simply a key situation.

“In the second period we created two or three chances but failed to take them and then in the closing seconds we gave the ball away cheaply and were punished.

“We have been trying hard to get the players to ensure that we concentrate fully for the entire 90 minutes to give us a chance of winning matches.”

He added: “Having gone so long without a win it has become a real monkey on our back but we have to do our utmost to get that victory that can give us the opportunity to finish the season well and we must aim to do that at Stenhousemuir on Tuesday night”

The Fifers did lose a couple of bad goals, the second coming in the 94th minute, and could have done better than miss a couple of good second-half chances.

They opened well but in 17 minutes slack marking at a Willie Gibson free-kick allowed Russell McLean a free header from eight yards.

Brad Smith should have scored midway through the second half but chipped over when clean through.

David Cox missed a fine chance to level after being set up by new signing Jordyn Sheerin.

They paid the price when another slack piece of defending by Cowden saw them lose the second goal to a trialist in the third minute of injurytime.