Ross County picked up a priceless three factors with an emphatic 3-0 win over dismal Dundee at Dens Park.
Targets from Noah Chilvers and subs Josh Nisbet and Jordan White secured what was the Staggies’ first Premiership away win since September 2023.
The consequence sees the Highland facet transfer as much as tenth within the desk, whereas Dundee slip to ninth.
The Darkish Blues made two modifications to the staff that misplaced narrowly towards Rangers at Ibrox on Saturday with Simon Murray and Seun Adewumi coming in for Fin Robertson and Seb Palmer-Houlden, who dropped to the bench.
The Staggies made 4 alterations to the beginning line-up that misplaced to St Mirren at dwelling final weekend with 23-year-old German keeper Jordan Amissah being handed a debut between the sticks instead of Jack Hamilton, who dropped to the bench, whereas Ryan Leak, Aidan Denholm and Jack Grieves got here in for Scott Allardice, White and Nisbet.
The Darkish Blues had been the primary to threaten when Billy Koumetio discovered Adewumi on the left and his harmful cut-back cross was cleared by a County defender simply forward of Murray, who was ready to drag the set off.
Shortly after, Chilvers tried his luck with an audacious lobbed effort from contained in the centre circle that flew simply over the bar.
Nonetheless, Chilvers broke the impasse within the twenty third minute with a crisp left-foot shot from the sting of the Dundee field that flew low into the underside nook of Trevor Carson’s web.
Because the half drew to a detailed, Chilvers hit a long-range snapshot however Carson made a routine save earlier than the keeper needed to produce a significant diving cease to maintain out a strike from Ronan Hale.
White scores a penalty to make it 3-0 towards Dundee
The Darkish Blues continued to make little impression on the Staggies’ purpose at first of the second half with a speculative Adewumi shot flying over Amissah’s bar within the 59th minute.
As an alternative it was County who got here near growing their lead when Ryan Astley needed to clear a Ryan Leak effort off his personal line.
Nonetheless, the Staggies scored their second within the seventieth minute with Chilvers discovering Nisbet contained in the Dundee field and he made no mistake with a medical end previous Carson.
Eight minutes later and the Staggies had been 3-0 up. Mulligan made a rash problem bringing down Nisbet inside his personal field with referee Don Robertson pointing to the spot. White stepped up and calmly despatched Carson the fallacious manner and the ball into the again of the web.
