Second half showing the key as Stirling Albion make winning start to life in League One

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Stirling Albion boss Darren Young paid tribute to his side’s second-half display as they made the perfect start to life in League One on Saturday.On an afternoon where the Binos raised the flag to mark their League Two success, they produced another trademark fighting performance to edge out Edinburgh City courtesy of Cammy Clark’s fine free kick.In truth, Stirling were fully deserving of the opening win although they did have to survive a couple of close shaves as the Citizens aimed to spoil the party.The Binos manager said the match showed the tight margins at their new level – but feels Stirling laid down an early marker of their intention to compete.Young said: “It shows the desire and feel-good attitude around the place, they know that every game is going to be hard and a bit of a scrap.

There are no easy games where last year where we scored three and fours in some games but we need to fight for everything.“I felt we started the game very well and had a perfectly good goal disallowed for nothing, the referee said the goalie was getting blocked but the boys have said they’ve stood their ground and the goalie couldn’t get by him and fell over so we were disappointed with that.“They had a good chance themselves where they’ve played a wee one-two and managed to get in behind but Blair has come up trumps once again with a great save and that was part of a 20 to 25 minute spell where we came under pressure.“We spoke to the boys about that and that it’s going to happen in this league and we need to take our chances when we are on top, the final third was a little disappointing in the first half.“I think we were outstanding in the second half and it was a great goal from Cammy and we had another two or three opportunities