Training ground trap executed with perfection

After four league wins in a row, Ross County have built the kind of momentum that merits their position at the top of the table.

Nobody considered this an easy fixture, given County’s last defeat was at Cappielow where Greenock Morton’s midfield trio were more than a match for the Staggies. This time around the visiting midfield were barely allowed a foothold as County’s players put in an exemplary performance.

From early on, County enjoyed large spells of possession.

The confidence of being a winning team will have surely helped the ease at which the ball was knocked about but it wasn’t the case of just holding on to the ball for the sake of it.

As County held the ball more, Morton began to sit in to try to keep a compact shape and frustrate the hosts. The build-up to County’s first goal was so well worked to counter that with Jamie Lindsay and then Iain Vigurs dropping very deep to get on the ball. As County’s central midfielders deliberately moved closer to their own defenders, it drew Morton’s own midfielders out of position to put some pressure on. All of a sudden the patient slow tempo became quick as Vigurs threaded the ball inside to Davis KeillorDunn, who in turn supplied Billy Mckay.

It was a well thoughtout trap that must have been worked at on the training ground and it was executed masterfully by Mckay who is on a special run of form at the moment.

Even when the management took off hat-trick hero Mckay and Vigurs, the side still looked dangerous.

With visits to Falkirk and Inverness within the next week the squad will be needed to keep this excellent run going.

County’s Iain Vigurs is fouled in the box