Arbroath 3 – 1 Montrose
Arbroath kept up their fine start to Group D by claiming their 2nd win in a week to lead the group with 6 points.
It was Montrose who opened the scoring in the 10th minute with Graham Webster with a spectacular goal to give the away side the lead.
However Gavin Swankie who put in a man of the match performance soon equalised carefully directing his header into the net from a Jason Thomson cross in the 26th minute.
Jason Thomson who also was having an impressive game headed in a Gavin Swankie free kick in the 43rd minute rising high and unmarked and made no mistake.
Into the second half and substitute Luke Donnelly was unlucky when he had a shot cleared off the line before Bobby Linn struck the post in the 85th minute.
However a Bobby Linn corner kick was fed into the path of Thomas O’Brien by Dale Hilson and the Arbroath skipper secured the win with a very cheeky lob to make it 3-1!
Two wins out of Two and the Lichties lead Group D with maximum points however face a very hard journey and match against Ross County on Tuesday night up in Dingwall.
Dick Campbell Post Match Interview
An interview with Jason Thomson who set up our first goal and then scored our second.
Jason has also signed a new contract extension keeping him at Gayfield until May 2022 which we are all absolutely delighted for!
Montrose Assistant Manager and Player Ross Campbell, and son of our Manager Dick Campbell spoke to Arbroath FC TV after today’s game
C’mon the Lichties
Arbroath
1 – Derek Gaston
2 – Jason Thomson
3 – Colin Hamilton (Gold 45)
4 – Ricky Little
5 – Thomas O’Brien
10 – Gavin Swankie
12 – Scott Stewart
14 – Kris Doolan (Donnelly 79)
16 – Michael Ruth (Linn 79)
17 – Connor Smith (Hilson 79)
28 – James Craigen (McKenna 72)
Substitutes
7 – David Gold; 3 – 45th
8 – Michael McKenna – 28; 72nd
9 – Dale Hilson: 17 – 79th
11 – Bobby Linn; 16 – 79th
15 – Luke Donnelly; 14; 79th
22 – Miko Virtanen
21 – Scott Gallacher (GK)
Goals – Swankie 27, Thomson 43, O’Brien 86
Yellow Cards – Gold 61, Ruth 70
Montrose
21 – Aaron Lennox
2 – Cammy Ballantyne
3 – Andrew Steeves
4 – Matty Allan (Watson 66)
17 – Aidan Quinn
5 – Kerr Waddell
7 – Graham Webster
22 – Cammy Ballantyne
23 – Martin Rennie (R. Campbell 72)
16 – Craig Johnston (Hawke 66)
11 – Lewis Milne
Substitutes
8 – Paul Watson; 4 – 66th
9 – Lewis Hawke; 16 – 66th
14 – Sean Dillon
15 – Ross Campbell; 23; 72nd
18 – Iain Campbell
1 – Allan Fleming (GK)
Goal – Webster 10
Yellow Cards – Watson 87, R. Campbell 91st
Referee: Graham Beaton
