Finn Graham replaced David Gold in the 63rd minute and 4 minutes later he won a penalty after being fouled by Seán Dillon.

Bobby Linn made no mistake from 12 yards and doubled Arbroath’s lead in the 69th minute.

However Bobby wasn’t finished and scored a fantastic goal in the 83rd minute to put the game beyond doubt.

As the game ran into injury time substitute Kane Hester again had another instinctive interception and kept his cool to beat Allan Fleming from 10 yards to make it 4-0.

Arbroath manager Dick Campbell had praise for everyone of his players and was delighted to have kept a clean sheet.

Very hard decision for a Man of the Match as so many players gave it everything today, but perhaps jointly awarded to Bobby and Gavin Swankie. Swankie showing his experience today and covered so much ground covering back and moving play forward.

Who was your Man of the Match?

Thanks again to the huge support who followed and supported the team.

Montrose

1 – Allan Fleming
4 – Matty Allan
14 – Seán Dillon
18 – Iain Campbell
2 – Terry Masson
17 – Jamie Redman (c)
22 – Paddy Cregg (Webster 64)
19 – Liam Callaghan (Johnston 74)
3 – Andrew Steeves
23 – Euan Henderson (Antoniazzi 74)
9 – Martin Rennie

Substitutes

7 – Graham Webster – 22; 64th
8 – Paul Watson
10 – Ross Campbell
15 – Danny Cavanagh
16 – Craig Johnston – 19; 74th
20 – Chris Antoniazzi – 23; 74th
21 – Jordan Millar (GK)

Yellow Cards – Cregg 62, Dilion 68

Arbroath

1 – Darren Jamieson
2 – David Gold (Graham 63)
3 – Colin Hamilton
4 – Ricky Little
5 – Thomas O’Brien
6 – Mark Whatley (c)
7 – Omar Kader (Denholm 70)
8 – Michael McKenna (Hester 70)
9 – Ryan Wallace
10 – Gavin Swankie
11 – Bobby Linn

Substitutes
12 – Kane Hester – 8; 70th
14 – Finn Graham – 2; 63rd
15 – Ryan McCord
16 – Danny Denholm – 7; 70th
21 – Darren Hill (GK)

Goals – Wallace 22, Linn 69 pen, 83, Hester 90+3

Yellow Cards – Whatley 70

Attendance – 1374

Referee – Alan Newlands
Assistant Referee 1 – Gordon Crawford
Assistant Referee 2 – Ryan Oliver