Airdrie boss finds fault in victory over Arbroath, despite ending winless streak

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Rhys McCabe watched his Diamonds end their run of five games without a Championship win, but he was still critical of his players for not inflicting more damage on Arbroath.Liam McStravick pounced on a rebound from a Nikolay Todorov shot in the box to open the scoring after 19 minutes, before Diamonds sub Lewis McGregor raced on to a Calum Gallagher ball over the top to net the clincher 11 minutes from time.It lifted Airdrie into the top four in the Championship but player-boss McCabe expected more from his charges on the day.He said: "We deserved the win.

I didn't think we were great but we did enough to win the game."I thought we could have been a bit more clinical going forward and picking them off, especially in the second half when we had three or four opportunities to go and kill the game off."They didn't really threaten us and I didn't think [goalkeeper] Josh Rae had a save to make."The performance over the last few games has been good, but we've maybe not merited the three points so we are delighted to get the three points."When Lewis came on, he just gave us that different dynamic.

He is quick and Arbroath tried to squeeze the game a bit to try and target our press."Once we played through that, the space was in behind for us to get to [Ricky] Little and [Colin] Hamilton at the back, who were lacking in pace compared to Lewis, so it was a case of finding that through ball."There was three or four instances where we worked a good opportunity in behind and we should have scored more than one."Airdrie now go into a break from league business, sitting three points clear of fifth-place Dunfermline, who have two games in hand, and five points off third-place Partick.But McCabe insists he isn't concerned by the