Alloa star Ben Gordon reckons they must end their Dumbarton hoodoo this weekend to help steer them to safety in the battle for survival at the bottom of the SPFL Championship.

Last weekend’s 1-0 defeat to Raith Rovers saw Alloa slip to eighth in the table and meant rivals Cowdenbeath also closed the gap on them to just four points but the big defender believes their fate is still in their own hands with five games remaining.

The former Dumbarton skipper hopes a victory over his former side can help them take advantage of Raith’s absence from league duty this weekend.

Gordon (pictured above) told Advertiser Sport, “Raith not playing next week allows us to repair the damage from this week and get back above them so we will be going all out for the win. I think if we can get one more win it will give us the confidence to make ourselves safe and kick on from there. I said during the week that I didn’t think Cowdenbeath would lose but then it is still sickening to see them equalise so late in their game.

“We won’t panic though because it is still in our own hands. All of the games left are ones that we can take points from and we won’t go into them with any fear but we will wait and see what happens.

“I think we must be due a win over Dumbarton because I don’t think we have had much luck against them this season. So maybe we owe them one. We will go there looking to get the win and hopefully we can grab something from the game because we know that every point is a prisoner from here on out.” Gordon admits he was left baffled as to how they lost the game against Grant Murray’s side after dominating proceedings for large spells and he felt his side should have been awarded two penalties.

“We had two decent penalty claims in the first half. The first one is a foul anywhere else on the pitch as the defender blocked me off as I went for the header but it was always very unlikely that we would get that one. The second one though looked a lot more clear cut to me but I guess the referee has seen it differently.

“That is what happens in football but it is just frustrating for us because it doesn’t make sense for Andy Kirk to go down at that point when he would have been in on goal. To not get something from that game was so frustrating and I am not sure how it was possible given the way we dominated but I guess that is just our luck at the moment.” The 25-year-old reckons though that the Wasps only have themselves to blame for the defeat because they had enough chances to win the game comfortably.

Gordon added, “We were dominant in the first half of the game and we had some good opportunities to score but we haven’t taken our chances then we have been killed off by a decent goal in the end. Overall though it was just a really frustrating day where the chances just wouldn’t go in for us.

“We passed up some good chances in the first half but their goal set us back and then we never really created anything clear cut in the second half.”