Alloa Athletic youngster Mark Williams reckons this weekend’s crunch SPFL Championship clash with rivals Dumbarton is the perfect clash to help them turn their season around.

The Wasps slumped to their sixth straight defeat this term with a 1-0 home loss to Greenock Morton last weekend, but despite being left frustrated by the narrow loss, the 20-year-old believes they just need a break of luck to reignite their season.

Williams told Advertiser sport: “Dumbarton is now a massive game for us and it is a good chance to bounce back against a fellow part-time team. We need to take something from that game and I fully believe we can. They have obviously started well and had a few good results already, but if we go there with the right belief then I believe we can go and take points off them.

“I think we just need everything to click for us. One performance will turn things around for us and if we can get that then I think the confidence will roll on from there, so hopefully that can happen against Dumbarton.

“It has been a tough spell for us with six defeats in a row, but we will dust ourselves down and get stuck into training this week. We are putting in all the effort, but we maybe just need that little break of luck to spark us into life again.

“I know it will come for us, I am really positive about that. The whole club is frustrated with the situation so we can understand how the fans are feeling. We are frustrated because we know we can compete with teams like Morton and Raith.

“We did compete for them and for long spells so we just have to take the positives from those games and look to produce that kind of performance for an entire 90 minutes because we haven’t managed that yet.” Williams admits that the entire squad were left gutted by the narrow loss at the hands of Jim Duffy’s men because they put so much into the game, and he reckons all that is missing from their performances is some conviction in the final third.

He said: “The Morton result was a tough one to take because we put so much into the game. We played really well in the first half and probably just edged it on the balance of play, but they started better in the second half and we never really ourselves going.

“It was disappointing to lose a goal from another set-piece and that is why the result is so tough to take because we were solid apart from that. Not defending well at set pieces is really killing us at the moment because at the other end of the pitch we are getting into really good areas in games, but we can’t seem to pick out that final pass to create the goals. That will come for us, we know it will, we just have to start believing it more.” The former St Mirren trainee has quickly forged a decent partnership with fellow defender Kyle McAusland on Alloa’s right hand side and he believes it is a combination that will only get stronger.

Williams added: “We got some really good joy down the right in the first half and I thought it worked really well with myself and Kyle on the right. We have been working hard on getting that right in training and it can only get better the more we play together.

“Despite a really good first half, I thought we were penned in a little in the second half, but we still looked solid. It is times like that where we just need to stick together and see the game out, but we were unfortunate to lose it from a set play.”