Reaction

Alloa got off to a flyer against the northeast side when Steven Boyd started and finished a flowing move. Cawley and Henderson showing excellent awareness with two first time passes freeing Boyd to find the bottom left corner. The Wasps continue to threaten on the break but they couldn’t quite carve another opening.

After sloppily giving the ball away though, Alloa were punished. Peterhead’s own pacy forward converted at Hutton’s front post with a flick from McCarthy’s cross and the away side grew into the game after the goal.

At a corner McDonald and Hutton clashed and both were booked. This proved vital, as a minute and a half later, Hutton palmed away the effort of Scott Brown from outside the box into the path of Payne. The Alloa stopper caught the Peterhead striker and a penalty was awarded as well as a second yellow. Alloa for the 3rd home game in a row found themselves down to ten men. Keir Burt replaced Cawley as he was sacrificed for the substitute goalie but there no heroics as Scott Brown deftly fired it low beyond the youngster. Alloa did provide an instant reaction – Scougall floating inside with the ball switched to Church and he delivered on a plate for Charlie Gilmour to rattle a volley high into the net.

Alloa were level but in the second half the introduction of McLean provided yet another target as the set pieces mounted. He won an unmarked flick-on to reinstate the Blue Toon lead. Alloa barely threatened the Peterhead goal as the disadvantaged 10 men continued to chase.

Late on, probably the man of the match, Josh Mulligan finished an impressive flowing break to cement the three points for the visitors. Ill discipline has proven a difficult hurdle so far with a third red card in just 10 league games proving again too much for Alloa as we slip to 8th in the league.