Scotland: Edinburgh City gain promotion

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Annan Athletic 2 - 1 Edinburgh City (Aggregate: 2 - 3) 

Edinburgh City won promotion to Scottish League One for the first time in their history after a tense 3-2 play-off final aggregate victory over Annan Athletic.

A superb finish from Innes Murray made it fourth time lucky in the play-offs for the side who progressed from the Lowland League only six years ago.

Edinburgh's two-goal first-leg lead was quickly wiped out by a Tony Wallace penalty and Tommy Goss header within 20 minutes.

But on-loan Hibernian midfielder Murray won the tie just after the break. Annan were also looking to win promotion for the first time since being admitted to the league in 2008, but miss out for a fourth time via the play-offs.

It has been an eventful season for Annan. They had a decent run in the cup before exiting to Rangers after a 3-0 defeat.

Scottish Cup: Rangers ease past Annan (eurosuperfootball.blogspot.com) 

It looked like Peter Murphy's hosts would turn the tie when midfielder Wallace fired Annan ahead with his 18th goal of the season after just six minutes from the penalty spot after Cammy Logan pushed Aidan Smith.

Striker Goss levelled on aggregate after 20 minutes when Brian Schwake could not keep out the striker's header from a corner.

Danny Handling then lobbed wastefully over Greg Fleming and the crossbar just before the break, but Murray made amends just after the restart as he found the far top corner from the edge of the penalty box.

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It finished like that and a 2-1 win for Annan wasn't good enough to see them gain promotion into the third tier.

This is the tweet that Edinburgh posted after the match. They now have a campaign in a new league to look forward to. For Annan, they will be determined to go up automatically next season and make life a lot easier and less stressful.



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