Liam Donnelly’s pink card turned the sport in Ross County’s favour as they defeated Kilmarnock 2-1 to leapfrog the Ayrshire outfit within the Scottish Premiership desk.
It had appeared just like the guests had been in management in Dingwall after taking the lead within the thirty ninth minute by Corrie Ndaba.
A second yellow card for Donnelly on the hour mark modified the sport fully although, with Jordan White’s objective instantly afterwards and an personal objective from Joe Wright within the 82nd minute making certain the factors remained within the Highlands.
In moist and windy situations, it took half an hour in for the sport to come back to life.
Marley Watkins related with a cross from Daniel Armstrong first to go shut for Killie, who then noticed Robbie McCrorie referred to as into motion instantly afterwards on the different finish to maintain out a long-range effort from Ronan Hale.
The guests practically benefited from a second of magic from Stuart Findlay with just below 10 minutes to go till the interval, as he waltzed by half of the County group and into the house field earlier than being denied by Ross Laidlaw.
Shortly afterwards although, a wonderful strike from Ndaba from the sting of the field broke the impasse, powering the ball previous Laidlaw and into the underside nook to offer Kilmarnock a 1-0 lead.
Though Kilmarnock seemed to be in charge of the sport, all of it modified after an hour.
Donnelly, who had already been booked for kicking the ball away, cynically pulled again a charging Noah Chilvers and was given his marching orders.
From the ensuing free-kick, taken by Chilvers himself, the ball ultimately fell to White to fireplace in from shut vary after the guests didn’t clear their traces.
With just below 10 minutes to go, County accomplished the turnaround.
Once more it was a set-piece taken by Chilvers that did the harm, swung in in the direction of Akil Wright, nevertheless it was Killie’s Joe Wright who bought the ultimate contact to ship it into his personal objective and put the Staggies forward.
Killie thought they may finish the sport with 9 males when Joe Wright was proven a pink card on the pitch, however referee Matthew MacDermid was referred to as over to evaluation the choice by VAR Andrew Dallas and downgraded the punishment to a yellow card.
