BRECHIN CITY V STIRLING ALBION

Scottish Irn Bru Second Division

Tuesday 28th February 2012

Glebe Park Kick-Off – 7.45pm

Referee - Stevie O’Reilly
Assistant Referees - Stuart Stevenson and Jeff Banks

Admission Information

Adults £12
Parent & Child £15 (plus £3 for each additional child)
Concessions £6

MATCH PREVIEW

City will be hoping to bounce right back from Saturday’s injury-time defeat at Central Park and they could possibly move up to fourth place in the Second Division table if they beat the Binos and Stenny and East Fife both lose away from home at Forfar and Dumbarton respectively. However, that’s all ifs and buts and no-one at the Glebe will be thinking that far ahead.

The main priority for manager Jim Weir is to field a team capable of winning the match and he has multiple problems in terms of selection. Paul McLean who came off early in the second-half at Central Park suffered some internal bleeding with the injury he sustained and is definitely out. Derek Carcary, David McClune, Ewan Moyes and Gerry McGlauchlan will all miss out again, but there is a slight chance that club captain Charlie King may be fit enough to play. Connor Gray the under 19 midfielder was drafted into the squad on Saturday and the chances are that he will be asked to go on the bench again along with possibly another under 19 player.

The Binos will be without top scorer Scott Davidson after his sending-off in Saturday's 4-1 defeat at Dumbarton.

This will be the Binos first visit to Glebe Park this season, the two previous games between the sides taking place at the Doubletree Dunblane Stadium with the score-line standing at one win each. Stirling won the first encounter by 1-0 with Darren Smith scoring the only goal way back on 1st October while City edged out their opponents by 3-2 just a couple of weeks ago.

Mark Ferry and Paul McLean (og) were the Stirling scorers that afternoon with Ferry (og), Bryan Hodge and Rory McKenzie on the mark for City.

Brechin City (Last Six League Results) LDDWWL

Stirling Albion (Last Six League Results) DLLLDL

Brechin City 24 League games played.
Won 8 Drawn 8 Lost 8
Goals For 28 Goals Against 31 GD -3
Points – 32
League Position – 6th

Stirling Albion 24 League games played
Won 5 Drawn 5 Lost 14
Goals For 29 Goals Against 49 GD -20
Points – 20
League Position – 10th

Brechin City Top Scorer Paul McManus (10 goals)

Stirling Albion Top Scorer Scott Davidson (7 goals)

Results this season

Stirling Albion 1 (Smith ) Brechin City 0
Played on 1st October 2011
Attendance - 555

Stirling Albion 2 (Ferry, McLean og) Brechin City 3 (Ferry og, Hodge, McKenzie)
Played on 18th February 2012
Attendance – 479

Brechin City’s Last Match

Cowdenbeath 1 (Lyle) Brechin City 0
Played on 25th February 2012
Attendance – 332

Stirling Albion’s Last Match

Dumbarton 4 (Graham, Agnew, Gilhaney (2) Stirling Albion 1 (Davidson)
Played on 25th February 2012
Attendance - 722

Brechin City

Biggest Win this season

3-0 against Dumbarton at Glebe Park on 19th November 2011.

Biggest Defeat this season

4-1 against Albion Rovers at Glebe Park on 12th November 2011.

Stirling Albion

Biggest Win this season

5-1 against Dumbarton at Strathclyde Homes Stadium on 13th August 2011.

Biggest Defeat this season

5-0 against Airdrie United at Excelsior Stadium on 30th July 2011 and 5-0 against Livingston at the Braidwood Motor Company Stadium on 9th August 2011.