Alloa captain Ben Gordon reckons victory against ‘bogey’ team Dumbarton on Saturday has the potential to be a season-changing result.

The Wasps trail Ian Murray’s men by six points in the SPFL Championship table, but the skipper says their focus is only on themselves as they look to scramble to league safety for another season.

The Clackmannanshire outfit haven’t beaten the Sons home or away in the last 14 meetings between the two sides, but the big defender believes the timing of this match is right for them to break that sequence.

Gordon told Advertiser sport: “We won’t let the Hibs result get us down because we competed well.

“The Cowdenbeath performance gave us a lot of confidence and renewed belief so we will look to use that as we head into the Dumbarton clash.

“We have never really been outplayed by anyone this season and so we can be confident of picking up enough points before the end of the season.

“We know that Dumbarton will be a tough game at a difficult venue for us and we haven’t beaten them in the whole time I have been at Alloa, but there is no time like the present to change that.

“Hopefully, we can put that to bed on Saturday and pick up another crucial three points.

“I don’t think the club’s record against them is something that the players pay too much attention to, but maybe we can use it as extra motivation.

“Our main focus is to go and win it though because we know it would be a huge result for us. In terms of catching Dumbarton in the table, we won’t rule anything out, but we will just look to pick up as many points as we can and see where that takes us.” Gordon was a stand out performer for Barry Smith’s side as they crashed to a narrow 1-0 home defeat to Hibs last weekend, but the club captain admits he was disappointed with their efforts in the final third of the pitch.

He said: “To lose 1-0 is never easy and this game particularly was disappointing. The first half was tough because they are a good side who played some nice football and stretched us all over the pitch. We improved in the second half, but I think the most disappointing thing was that we never kept the ball as well as we can.

“To lose the game to a goal like that as well was really frustrating because we limited them to very little clear chances. The free kick was soft, but the referees are always going to give those, but the biggest disappoint is that it comes from our own corner.

“We had plenty of possession at times, but we were never able to ever cut them open for a clear cut chance. We just didn’t make the right decisions at the right times, but we did well on the defensive side as a team unit and made life difficult for them.” The 29-year-old former Dumbarton defender was also disappointed that his side weren’t able to make the conditions work to their advantage on the rain-soaked artificial pitch at the Indodrill Stadium.

He added: “The rain made conditions tricky for both teams, but I expected us to cope better because we play on it all the time. I guess that is just the way it goes when you are at the bottom, but we will pick ourselves up and go again.”