County looking for cup victory to help ignite Premiership revival

ROSS Laidlaw says Ross County will hope to use tonight’s Betfred Cup quarter-final at Livingston as the spark that ignites a revival in their league form.

Stuart Kettlewell’s men stunned Celtic in the previous round of the competition, but things have not being going so well in the Premiership.

The Dingwall team have picked up just two points from their last nine games and now sit bottom of the table.

But goalkeeper Laidlaw says victory at the Tony Macaroni Arena could fire his side not only to Hampden but up the standings.

He said: “No one wants to be sitting where we are in the table right now.

“We had a good start to the season, but it has tailed off recently.

“We know we’ve got some winnable games coming up, especially at home with some of the teams around us.

“So we’re hoping to take some strong performances into those as well as the quarter-final against Livi.”

Meanwhile, Scott Tiffoney is likely to drop out of the Livi squad for the quarter-final.

The forward went off with a tight hamstring shortly after coming on during Saturday’s win at St Johnstone and Steve Lawson is set to come into the squad.

Long-term absentees Keaghan Jacobs (foot) and Alan Lithgow (hip) remain on the sidelines.

County defenders Alex Iacovitti and Connor Randall could both miss the trip to West Lothian.

Iacovitti came off quite early on with a dead leg during Saturday’s defeat to Aberdeen, while rightback Randall also had to be replaced before halftime after suffering a back spasm.

Ross County goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw.