Clyde 2, Cowdenbeath 0.

Ladbrokes League 2

Attendance-613

ANOTHER bleak day for the Blue Brazil as Clyde made it five wins in a row to go steaming away from their visitors.

Despite Edinburgh City losing yet again Cowdenbeath just could not even get a point from the game, at Broadwood on Saturday, and time is starting to run out for them.

Cowden were without their entire strike force for this one with David Cox suspended and Robbie Buchanan and Aiden Malone also out with injuries and it meant Ben Reilly playing up front with support from Brad Smith, and it was a situation the Blues could have done without.

At no stage this season have they seemed to get breaks on the injury front and this was a classic example with only teenager Cammy Muirhead, of their front line attackers, available for selection.

It meant that the midfield area was heavily populated and while it worked pretty well in the first-half, once Clyde scored it meant that there was not a lot that could be done to rectify the situation.

All in all a very poor day and one that has been fairly typical of this awful season for the club.

The opening phase of the game saw things confined to the midfield area and neither side threatened at all.

Indeed, there was 23 minutes on the clock before there was a meaningful shot at goal which came from Clyde’s Barry Cuddihy, but Dave McGurn was alert to the situation and saved comfortably.

Clyde started to see more of the ball but all that they could muster was a Jack Boyle shot which was easily saved by McGurn, but from a Cowdenbeath point of view they just could not create anything of note in the Clyde penalty box.

A goalless first period and with their limitations Cowdenbeath would have settled for that, but their strategy was undone two minutes into the second period.

Mark Lamont, who was a lively player for the Bully Wee, provided the pass for David GOODWILLIE and he found the net with a good finish from the middle of the box.

Cowden came back at Clyde though and in 55 minutes Matt McInally hit the bar with a rasping shot from the right hand side of the box, and then Bryan Gilfillan’s shot was blocked before a Blair Malcolm header went just over.

But in 71 minutes Cowden were in real trouble. GOODWILLIE was fouled by Jamie Pyper in the box and he got up to give McGurn no chance from the spot.

Cowden kept at it and Fraser Mullen’s shot went too high but there was nothing they could do to get a goal.

Clyde: Currie (7); Laing (7), Cogill (6); McNiff (7), Horne (6), Lamont (6) (Grant 74 93)); Cuddihy (7), Nicoll (6), Goodwillie (8), McStay (6) (Osadolor 74 (3)), Boyle (6) (Martin 66 (3)).

Cowdenbeath: Dave McGurn (7); Matt McInally (7), Harvey Swann (7); Bryan Gilfillan (6) (Cammy Muirhead 66 (3)), Scott Rumsby (6), Jamie Pyper (6); Fraser Mullen (7), Kyle Miller (6), Ben Reilly (6), (Jack Whittaker 66 (3)), Brad Smith (6), Blair Malcolm (6).

Referee-David Dickinson (7).