Airdrie star targets Alloa and Clyde clashes to boost promotion push in League One

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Striker Callum Smith has targeted a Championship play-off slot for Airdrie this season, and hopes back-to-back home games against Alloa and Clyde can help them.Smith, 23, admits it has been a difficult season following the movement of manager Ian Murray and assistant Scott Agnew to Raith Rovers in the summer, and Rhys McCabe and Callum Fordyce’s appointment to replace them.That has brought challenges, but Smith says they’re settled and playing good football as they sit fifth in League One.

Alloa come calling at the weekend, with Airdrie looking to leapfrog their opponents into fourth spot.Bottom of the table Clyde are visitors the following weekend, and Smith hopes their good record against the Bully Wee continues.“Getting that play-off is going to be massive,” he said. “It’s quite tight round the play-off places just now, so if we can start sneaking back up the table that would be ideal.“We’re looking forward to Alloa.

We had the week off, which is good because we can get a few boys back and recovered well.“It’s always a good game against Alloa, we go toe-to-toe with them and we’re both very attacking sides, so we’re looking forward to that one.“We’ve got Clyde after that and we’ve always had quite a good record against them, to be fair.“We are looking forward to that game as well, and hopefully start climbing up the table.”On a summer of change at New Broomfield, Smith said: “It has been a difficult season.

We knew it was going to be a hard league again, it always is in League One.“We’ve been a wee bit up and down – we went through a really good spell, then were up and down, and it’s trying to get back to that and winning every week.“It was always going to be a tough transition for us, especially when the whole