Albion rack up first-half goals for second straight game as boss hails side's confidence

Stirling Albion boss Darren Young admits his side are brimming with confidence after securing a second straight 4-1 win at Forfar.

The home side were a well-fancied pick to challenge at the top end of the League Two table in pre-season, but were blown away by the Binos – who moved to within seven points of leaders Dumbarton at the summit.

Once again, the visitors scored three goals in the opening half, with skipper Paul McLean nodding in from close range just after the half -hour mark, before Cammy Clark’s angled strike and Dale Carrick’s excellent header added to the lead.

Joshua Jack pulled one back for Forfar on the hour, but Kai Fotheringham added to his excellent start for Albion with the fourth shortly afterwards.

Gaffer Young said his side had to weather an early storm, but admitted he borrowed some inspiration from Steve Clarke’s Scotland side in devising the Albion’s corner kick opener.

Young said: “I’m delighted because it’s a hard place to come and in the first 10-15 minutes, they could have taken the lead, but Blair kept us in the game and we dealt with the pressure well.

“We were brilliant defensively and then once we got the ball forward and started playing, we came into the game a lot more and overall I think we deserved it.

“We passed it well and tried to get them isolated and the corner is actually something we spoke about.

“It was one that Scotland did on Tuesday night [the 3-0 home win against Ukraine], we thought we had the opportunity to do it, one around the front and one round the back and it was perfect.

“I feel as if the confidence is there with the players and that comes from winning and good performances.

“It was maybe lacking a wee bit because we kept making mistakes but it’s been a settled