Ross County Database

DateSaturday, 30 March 2019
CompetitionScottish Championship
Fixture/ScoreAlloa Athletic 1:0 Ross County
VenueIndodrill Stadium, Alloa
Attendance697
RefereeColin Steven
CommentsMatch Report
Report by Heather Dewar for the BBC.
Alloa Athletic 1 Ross County 0
Ross County stay two points clear at the top of the Scottish Championship, despite suffering a second defeat in two league games at Alloa Athletic.
Dario Zanatta's strike curled sweetly into the net and moved bottom side Alloa to within two points of Falkirk.
Brian Graham, Michael Gardyne and Ross Stewart all had spurned for the leaders but they were spared by Dundee United losing at home to Queen of the South.
Alloa, meanwhile, remain three points from safety with six games to play.
Alloa Athletic manager Jim Goodwin: "That was a real team effort. It's our first clean sheet for a long time so I'm delighted with that.
"The players are loving life in the Championship and are willing to fight and scrap for every goal to maintain Championship status. We've been on a poor run and will take a lot of confidence from that win."
Ross County co-manager Steven Ferguson: "We're disappointed. We came here to win but will dust ourselves down and go again.
"Credit to Alloa, who made it really difficult for us. We feel it's a missed opportunity."
Ross County
ManagerSteven Ferguson Stuart Kettlewell
Starting 111: Scott Fox, 2: Marcus Fraser, 7: Michael Gardyne, 8: Jamie Lindsay, 12: Andrew Boyle, 14: Joshua Mullin 1, 15: Keith Watson, 16: Lewis Spence 1, 19: Brian Graham 1, 26: Don Cowie (SNR), 28: Kenny Van der Weg
Bench21: Ross Munro, 3: Sean Kelly, 6: Ross Draper, 10: Declan Mcmanus, 27: Ross Stewart, 31: Daniel Armstrong, 44: Tom Grivosti
Alloa Athletic
ManagerJim Goodwin
Starting 11Neil Parry, Scott Taggart, Liam Dick, Andy Graham, Steven Hetherington, Jon Robertson, Alan Trouten 1, Iain Flannigan 1, Jack Aitchison, Dario Zanatta 1, Connor Shields
BenchKevin Cawley, Jack Hamilton, Adam Brown, Jordan Kirkpatrick, Zack Karadachki, Reis Peggie, Chris Henry