Match report: Elgin City end their Edinburgh City curse with a comfortable Borough Briggs win
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ELGIN City buried their Edinburgh City bogey with a comfortable 2-0 victory at Borough Briggs.
Having not defeated the capital side in their previous 14 League 2 meetings, the Black and Whites wiped the slate clean and continued their good run of results in the process.
Two early goals did the business for Elgin, who also rattled the woodwork three times while two red cards compounded Edinburgh's Miserable afternoon.
City were without the injured Darryl McHardy and suspended Rabin Omar, with Aberdeen loan defender Evan Towler and striker Josh Peters coming into the starting eleven.
A smart start by the home side saw Kane Hester turn neatly and weave into the box before crashing a left foot drive off the bar on five minutes.
Three minutes later, Elgin’s early pressure was rewarded with an opening goal from a Russell Dingwall corner on the left which picked out Peters at the far post to slam home his first goal of the campaign.
Home centre back Ross Draper had to be bandaged up after cutting his head during an accidental collision.
It was 2-0 on 17 minutes after Edinburgh defender Michael Travis handled a through ball and was booked, and from the resulting free kick Hester’s 25-yard effort struck the wall and deceived the keeper as it spun into the corner of the net.
The visitors’ day went from bad to worse when Travis hit Hester with a wild challenge and was sent off for his second booking on 19 minutes.
On the half hour mark a Towler corner led to a scramble in the Edinburgh box but Kane O’Connor saw an effort blocked and the ball spun out of play.
A strong Angus Mailer challenge led to an Elgin surge with Mailer breaking down the left and crossing for Hester to fire just past.
Three minutes later Hester played in Dingwall who had the goal in his sights but dragged his shot wide off target.
Elgin appeared content with their two-goal lead but thought they had a third on 65 minutes when Dingwall poked home from close range but was ruled offside.
A neat home move on 68 minutes saw Mailer lay the ball off for Brian Cameron, who fired a low effort off the base of the post. It wasn’t properly cleared and Towler cracked a long range effort just wide.
Edinburgh picked up three yellow cards following a late challenge on Mailer as the game started to slide away from the visitors.
One of those yellows became red when Crane wiped out Dingwall and was sent off with a minute left, and sub Tyler Mykyta crashed the free kick off the bar.
Elgin could have won by more goals but were happy to end their Edinburgh jinx and pick up a good voictory and second consecutive clean sheet.
Elgin: Hoban; Cooper, O’Connor, Draper, Towler; Dingwall (MacEwan 90), Mailer, Cameron, Sopel (O’Keefe 73); Hester, Peters (Mykyta 78).
Subs: Machado, Allen, McHale.
Edinburgh: Schwake, Logan, Hamilton, Travis, Crane; McDonald, Tapping (Stirling 62), Murray, Handling (Brian 73) Shanley (Farrell 23), See.
Subs: McIntyre, Berry, Leighfield.
Ref: Ross Hardie
Att: 667
