Adams confident in Staggies’ scoring spell

Manager Derek Adams is confident Ross County will be scoring more goals sooner rather than later – and not just his strikers.

The 10th-placed Scottish Premiership side, who host sixthplaced Hibs today, are five games into Adams’ third spell in charge at Dingwall.

Including the matches with predecessor Malky Mackay, County have failed to score in nine of their 17 league fixtures, with only rock-bottom Livingston worse off with 10 blanks.

Adams guided his side to seven points from nine with a 0-0 draw against Kilmarnock followed by a 1-0 win over St Mirren and an impressive 3-0 victory over Motherwell.

A 2-0 defeat at St Mirren was followed by Saturday’s last-gasp 1-0 home loss to Dundee.

Simon Murray is their most potent finisher this season with 11 goals from 23 matches, followed by Jordan White on five goals.

Adams said: “We have Simon Murray, Jordan White, Eamonn Brophy and Alex Samuel – an abundance of good strikers who can score goals.

“We’ve got number 10s in Josh Sims and Yan Dhanda and you only have to look at midfield players that can chip in as well like Kyle Turner, who did it last year at Partick Thistle, but you have to be on it.

“We all talk about it, but you have to go over that white line and do it.

“That’s the players’ responsibility. They have to go over the white line and put on good performances.”

Weekend visitors Hibs have won four of their last six fixtures, although their 1-0 defeat at St Johnstone slowed their progress last weekend.

Adams said: “Hibs are a very good team.

“They play in an expansive way, with a lot of good technical players, but they are a capital club. They are ones who are pushing to get into a European place, but we saw last week with the St Johnstone game that there is the possibility of taking points off them.”