Raith Rovers defenders were terrorised by our front two, beams Airdrie boss after win

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Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe says strikers Gabby McGill and Nikolay Todorov terrorised Raith Rovers’ defence, and wouldn’t like to play against them every week.Todorov ultimately got Airdrie’s winner, heading in Mason Hancock’s cross in 24 minutes to bag a second win over the Championship leaders this season.While Rovers started brightly, they never really looked like scoring against the Diamonds, who consolidated fourth place in the table.McCabe pointed to his front pairing, but says they could have been completely different and still come up with the same outcome.He said: “We’ve looked solid at the back, and I think it’s four games now, minus the penalty at Queen’s Park, where we’ve not conceded a shot on target, which is credit to the lads.“That’s not just the defenders, I think you see the workload of the lads up top and the midfielders, the graft that they put in to give us a platform to play.“It was Gabby McGill and Nikolay Todorov today, but it could have been Calum Gallagher, Josh O’Connor and others the next week – everyone puts in their shift and they’re reaping the rewards just now, we’re getting good results.“Nikolay has come into a system and a style that’s totally different from [where he was at] Dunfermline.“He’s a big handful, a really awkward player to play against, from a physical side of things.“Coming to a new environment, to a style and a way that we want to play, has probably been a little bit of a challenge for him.“But he has openly admitted that’s the area he wants to improve on, and he wants to work.“Even though we tried to play, and want to play a certain way, when we do need to mix it up or change things, what an asset to have, even on the physicality side, and even the runs in behind that he and