VIDEO: Defeat is play-offs blow for Elgin
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Manager Gavin Price said his team must defeat the Warriors to keep their slim League 2 play-off hopes alive.
City crashed to a 2-0 home defeat against Stirling Albion on Saturday (see Elgin City TV highlights video).
The result left the Moray side still trailing fourth-placed Stenhousemuir by four points, after the Warriors also lost at home to Cowdenbeath.
The two play-off rivals meet at Ochilview on Saturday and Price admitted: "We will need to win it."
"It is last chance saloon on Saturday so we will need to treat it like a cup final, get through this cup final and we will see where it takes us.
"Certainly we need to start building momentum now there's seven games to go."
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