Elgin City remain unbeaten in William Hill League 2 but concede stoppage time equaliser to Edinburgh City in thrilling 3-3 draw
Elgin City remain unbeaten in League 2 but were denied victory by a stoppage time free kick in a thrilling 3-3 draw with Edinburgh City.
Elgin went straight into attack with a superb Lewis Hyde run past several opponents ended by a foul for a free kick which Russell Dingwall fired into the wall.
Edinburgh retaliated when Connor Young punished home hesitancy to steal in ahead of keeper Aidan Glavin in the box and rounding him, but a timely challenge from stand-in stopper Brian Cameron denied the striker a shot on goal.
There was stalemate with both sides cancelling each other out for the best part of half an hour and nothing created in the way of goal chances.
Elgin’s Lyall Booth tried his luck from nearly 30 yards but Mark Weir was equal to his 31st minute effort.
Five minutes later Ross Draper was penalised for a foul on James Stoke almost 30 yards from goal and Young stepped up to curl it over the wall and just inside Glavin’s post for the opening goal.
It could have been 2-0 five minutes later when Stokes made space for a strike from the edge of the box which Glavin did well to save.
Hyde limped off for the home side just before half time to be replaced by Dajon Golding, with Elgin reverting to a back four pushing Cameron into midfield.
Ryan Sargent replaced Kian Leslie at the break and the home side had a spring in their step in the second half.
They equalised when Dingwall danced into space and drilled a low effort across Mark Weir for a superb solo equaliser on 48 minutes.
The scorer volleyed over on 57 minutes, before meeting a right wing cross from Golding on the hour to net a brilliant header on the hour and put Elgin ahead for the first time.
Dingwall was denied a hat-trick when he took a Mark Gallagher cross and steered a shot off the base of the post on 70 minutes.
Two minutes later Edinburgh sub Jason Jarvis, on the pitch just a minute, set up Innes Lawson for a 20 yard drive which flashed inside the near post and made it 2-2.
Elgin keeper Glavin made a fine stop to deny scorer Lawson on 87 minutes.
The Black and Whites looked to have nicked victory in the 89th minute when sub Owen Cairns fired home his first goal for the club after a Golding shot spun into his path.
But three minutes into time added on, Draper was penalised for a foul on the edge of the box and was sent off for a second caution.
Young stepped up for the second time to fire another left foot setpiece kick beyond Glavin into the net to grab a point for Edinburgh with the last effort of the game.
Elgin: Glavin, Draper, Cameron, Murray, Girvan (Cairns 76), Gallagher, Hyde (Golding 43), Dingwall, Booth, Leslie (Sargent 46), Gavin (McDonald 76)).
Subs: Cairns, McDonald, MacLeman, Fraser, MacDonald, Taylor.
Edinburgh: Weir, Robertson, McArthur, Lynch (McKinstray 81), Grigor, Jones, Stokes, Gormley (Jarvis 71), Lawson, Mitchell, Young.
Subs: Scally, Rennie, Pitt, Beveridge.
Ref: D. Graves
Att: 726
