Brechin Edge Past Locos at Harlaw Park
Inverurie Locos 1-2 Brechin City Cairns (15′) Armour (11′) Findlay (52′) Mitchell Findlay’s second-half strike lifted Brechin to third place in the Highland League against Inverurie Locos. Brechin City found themselves ahead early on through on-loan Kilmarnock man, Ben Armour, heading the visitors ahead. Locos quickly responded with a ball into the box, where there appeared to be confusion between the players in the box, the ball fell at the foot of Ethan Cairns, who fired home. Both sides had a great range of attacking play, with Locos having the best of the chances but failing to convert a second. Brechin started the second half brightly, dominating the ball, but was unable to create many clear-cut chances. The Hedgemen did find a way to go ahead with a ball into the box, which was tapped into the net by Findlay. Locos injected a lot more energy into the squad following a handful of changes, but were unable to find a second equaliser. The win moves the visitors up to third with the Broch suffering defeat at Banks O’ Dee. Locos drop down a spot into fifth. Inverurie Locos: Ellis, Reid, Ochmanski, Robertson (Buchan 72’), Chapman, Souter, Smith (McKenzie (63’), Halliday, Cairns (Bolton 63’) Duncan (Gray 72’), Skea (Ward 63’) Brechin City: Hepburn, Sweeney, Klimomek (Farquhar 79’), Hutchinson, Spark (Baird 24’), Taylor, Watson, MacLeod, Armour (Tosh 61’), Findlay (McGrath 61’), Moreland
Inverurie Loco Works welcome Brechin City to Harlaw Park on Saturday in the Highland League.
Inverurie Loco Works welcome Brechin City to Harlaw Park on Saturday in the Highland League. Inverurie Locos haven’t started the season off as hoped as the Locos sit 14th with only three wins to their name. Inverurie had an unbelievable run end of last season going on a long 13 game unbeaten run with 12 of those games being wins. Locos have failed to bring the form into the season starting off with 6 defeats in a row. Locos have been at victim of some heavy defeats so far such as a 5-0 home defeat to Clachnachuddin and a 4-1 defeat to Forres Mechanics. They have had a big 4-0 win against Rothes along the way. Inverurie have also suffered heartbreak with Sauchie Juniors dumping the Highland League side out of the Scottish Cup. For the visitors, Brechin they have a decent enough start, sitting fourth in the league with a game in hand. Should The Hedge Men take three points from their game in hand, they may grab top spot in the league. Brechin have only been defeated twice in league action losing to Formartine United and top of the league, Fraserburgh. Brechin have had some crucial wins such as a 8-1 away win at Rothes and a 5-0 win over Buckie Thistle. Brechin also were on the winning end in all of their opening six fixtures. Brechin also grabbed a place in the Scottish Cup second round with a 3-1 win over Lochee United. Last meeting Last time the two sides clashed, the Locos were winners, defeating Brechin 1-0 at Harlaw Park courtesy of a Milosz Ochmanski goal. Last time out Locos last time out edged out Keith at Harlaw Park in a 1-0 victory thanks to a goal from former Sheffield United man, Paul Coutts from the penalty spot. For Saturday’s visitors, they were edged out by Fraserburgh 1-0 at Glebe Park in the top of the table clash. An own goal by Dugald Farquhar gave the Broch the vital three points.
