JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH

City’s Lowdon keen for next match to make amends for disappointing defeat at Clyde CLYDE 4 ELGINCITY 1

Jordan Lowdon says his Elgin City side are already counting down the days until their next match after a morale-sapping defeat to Clyde on Saturday.

The loss to Danny Lennon’s men was only Elgin’s second of the league season so far but both have been by a margin of three goals and Lowdon knows that’s simply not good enough.

The 26-year-old said: “It’s never nice to be on the end of a score-line like that. We gave ourselves a real mountain to climb but there’s nothing we can do about that now.

“We’ve let ourselves down in two games so far this season but you’re not going to win every week and the most important thing now is how we bounce back.

“We reacted well to the Stirling Albion defeat so hopefully we can do the same in our next match against Queen’s Park. The boys are all raring to go and right the wrongs of today.”

Gavin Price’s side were second best in every area at a blustery Broadwood and the hosts had the game sewn up before the break.

Defender Martin McNiff grabbed the first from a Chris McStay corner, following a series of ricochets in the Elgin box. The City defence weren’t great on that occasion and the same could be said about the second as David Goodwillie raced clear and slotted under Kyle Gourlay for his seventh of the season.

Gourlay was helpless again as the Bully Wee soon added a third. Again it was McStay’s delivery that allowed McNiff his second of the match.

Elgin were offered a glimmer of hope late in the first half when Lowdon’s free-kick cross caught the wind and flew over keeper Blair Currie into the net. It was a bizarre way for the full-back to get his first goal for the Black and Whites but he didn’t care.

“I’ll take it”, he said. “I’ve meant it as a cross and the wind has caught hold of it and deceived Blair. I’m not complaining but it’s just disappointing we couldn’t make it the start of something.

“We tried to get back into the game after half-time but it was always going be difficult. We did have chances in the second half but it was just one of those days.”

One such chance was when Rabin Omar cracked the crossbar from 25 yards. The forward was later given his marching orders for a second bookable offence before substitute Abdel Karim Belmokhtar added a fourth for the Bully Wee.

Lowdon added: “We know we have a good squad. We just need to look at our next three matches and try to get positive results.”

SEEING RED: Elgin’s Rabin Omar, third from right, is sent off after a rash challenge on Clyde’s Chris McStay