ARBROATH 3

Stewart (28), Linn (pen, 54), Kader (86)

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ARBROATH are one of the form teams in Scottish football with four wins from five games – and manager Dick Campbell hailed their latest success as the best he’s seen.

Strikes from Scott Stewart, Bobby Linn and Omar Kader helped the Angus side to a 3-0 win over Inverness to go joint fourth. And Campbell, who has over three decades of experience as a manager, believes the destruction of Caley was flawless.

“In all the years I’ve been doing this, that’s as good a performance I’ve seen individually and collectively from any team I’ve managed,” said Campbell.

“There wasn’t a failure.” Inverness had the game’s first chance in seven minutes as James Keatings set up Nikolay Todorov who saw his close range effort blocked by Arbroath keeper Derek Gaston. But Arbroath dominated the rest of the first period with Stewart driving into the box and powering a low drive off Caley keeper Mark Rodgers’ legs.

Ridgers then did well to block a Ricky Little header before he was finally beaten on 28 minutes.

Stewart’s darting run took him into the box before he drove low into the bottom corner.

It was no more than Arbroath deserved and they should have had a penalty on 41 minutes as Little was pushed to the deck by Jamie Mccart.

The hosts were on top at the start of the second period with Ridgers forced to fist a netbound Little header clear.

Gaston then kept his side ahead with a low save from Miles Storey.

But the Gayfield side doubled their advantage on 54 minutes as Bobby Linn slammed home a penalty following Brad Mckay’s push on Colin Hamilton.

And they completed the win in 86 minutes with subs Michael Mckenna and Kader combined with the latter stroking home from six yards.