Lothian spot on in cup win full of drama

Both teams had long spells in attack without either really looking like scoring but the best effort was a Lothian Athletic strike just inside the box which was called marginally offside by the assistant referee.

Lothian's pressure paid off five minutes later when a penalty was given for handball in the box by referee Jeff de Herdt.

Athletic captain John Robertson cracked in what seemed to be a net-bound shot but LBC keeper Chris Robertson pulled off a spectacular save to put the ball around the post.

There were no goals in the regulation 90 and so extra time ensued. Eight minutes in and the deadlock was broken when a cracking cross-field ball from left to right fell to LBC substitute Chris Rankin, who drilled the ball across Jordan Mein's goal and into the back of the net.

Things went from bad to worse for Athletic when, moments they went a goal down, Paul Scott was shown a straight red. However, Lothian Athletic got back on level terms when the LBC defence were caught napping and Gareth Manson nipped in to knock the ball past the keeper.

There was no more scoring and the trophy was to be settled with a penalty shoot-out but prior to the final whistle, Lothian brought on regular keeper Scott Gordon to replace centre-midfielder Mein.

Lochend's second penalty saw full-back Simon Riley hit his shot to Gordon's bottom right but the keeper parried it away to put his side in control.

Both sides again hit the target then Lochend's Lee Pyrkosz stepped up with everyone knowing a miss would cost his side the cup, however, after Gordon appeared to have made another save the referee ordered the spot-kick to be retaken due to the Lothian keeper encroaching off his line. This time, Pyrkosz didn't miss and blasted the ball into the top right-hand corner.

Mein stepped up and sent the keeper the wrong way with Athletic's final penalty to seal the win.