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blew a great chance to pull ahead in the promotion hunt going down 2-0
to a completely unimpressive Elgin City side. Elgin barely had
any attacks prior to their opening goal in the 81st minute and wrapped
it up in the final minute via Ian Gilzean. Sons were down to 10
men at that time with skipper Kevin McCann being sent-off and had
already missed a penalty in 68 minutes.
With Peterhead grabbing a late
equaliser at Glebe Park Sons lead is now down to a single point over
Peterhead.
Sons dominated the half with most of
the possession
throughout the opening 45 minutes but couldn't convert this into
chances. The large travelling Sons support (over 150) gave their
full backing to
Half-Time: Elgin City 0 Dumbarton 0
The large travelling support was
celebrating when Mark Crilly was impeded by an Elgin defender running
through on goal to give Sons a great chance from the spot.
Flannery stepped up and placed the ball to the bottom corner but Pirie
got down well to turn the ball round the post and the chance was lost.
If this wasn't bad enough Kevin
McCann was then given a straight red-card for what has been termed a
'violent conduct.'
Tom Carson decided not to bring on
John McKeown and Sons minus a centre-half were caught short in defence
and failed to clear Elgin's first real chance as McBride headed home.
Elgin City 1 Dumbarton 0
With Sons chasing the game a claim
for a penalty for handball in the Elgin area was turned down and from
the break up the park Elgin's Ian Gilzean killed off any hopes of a
point by shooting home. A bitter pill of the Sons support and
this was made even worse as the news that Peterhead had just grabbed a
late equaliser at Glebe Park.
Elgin City 2 Dumbarton 0
Dumbarton are now only one point
ahead of Peterhead and two ahead of Albion Rovers with only five
matches remaining this looks like it could go down to the final day of
the season. Sons must capitalise on their possession and regroup
for Tuesday's match at East Stirlingshire.
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