Martindale hails Anderson after yet another goal against County

LIVINGSTON boss David Martindale said Ross County must be sick of the sight of Bruce Anderson after the departing striker scored his sixth goal against the Staggies in Saturday’s 2-0 victory.

The 25-year-old will leave the Lions at the end of this season, with a move to England in the pipeline, and the Highland outfit are likely to be happy to see the back of him.

Anderson came into the Livi side in place of the suspended Tete Yengi and opened the scoring with an opportunist lob in the 12th minute before Sean Kelly sealed the points.

It was only the fourth league win of the season for the relegation-haunted Lions, who moved within nine points of second-bottom County with four games to play.

“Look at Brucey’s record against Ross County, I reckon I’d have started him even if Tete wasn’t suspended,” said Martindale. “When [County boss] Don Cowie saw big Tete got sent off at Tynecastle, he’d have thought ‘Oh my God, not again’, because strikers have moments throughout their careers when certain teams they play against, they seem to score and wee Brucey’s [favourite] is definitely Ross County.

“It was a great finish. That’s Brucey’s type of goal. He plays football to score goals. He’s a dying breed. He’s a No.9 all day long and there’s not a lot of his type in football now.”

With 10th-place St Johnstone losing at home to Hibernian, County were left to rue an opportunity missed to climb out of the bottom two.

“I don’t focus on the other teams,” said interim Staggies boss Cowie. “It’s about us and we knew with five games to go the destiny was in our hands.”