Brechin 0-0 Alloa

Mar 2 2008 John Hoey Reports

CHANCES were as rare as a dry day as fans suffered a goal drought.

Keepers were hardly tested and in the end a draw was a fair result.

Alloa's best opening came in eight minutes when an Adam Coakley header rattled off the post.

Four minutes later Kyle MacAulay made room on the edge of the box but his shot was saved by Craig Nelson who then tipped a Scott Agnew piledriver past the post.

City hit back and David White headed a Darren Smith cross wide.

Alloa threatened again in the 22nd minute but Coakley blasted over.

Brechin came close just before the break when Iain Diack fired too high from just within the box.

The first chance of the second half came after 58 minutes when Charlie King narrowly missed the target.

King then drilled over the bar after a Neil Jancyzk corner had been headed into his path.

Kevin Byers tested Wasps keeper Raymond Jellema for the first time with a shot that was well blocked.

It was Alloa who finished stronger and five minutes from the end a chance to win it fell to Agnew but from 25 yards his effort sailed over the bar.